Jaime Clarke is a graduate of the University of Arizona and holds an MFA from Bennington College. He is the author of the novels:
--We’re So Famous, (the first and worst review + actor Malcolm McDowell's hilarious reaction to review + praise for + original American cover + British cover + galley cover for 15th anniversary reissue)
--Vernon Downs, (praise for + book trailer narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Chris Cooper + alternate trailer + original cover),
--World Gone Water, (praise for + book trailer narrated by Thora Birch + original cover)
--Garden Lakes, (praise for + book trailer narrated by the author + original cover)
and the memoirs:
-- Poor Man’s Gatsby (praise for) published as Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, in IG Publishing’s Bookmarked series
--Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle, which is the basis for his microcast, Typical (Anthony Michael Hall promo), available on Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and elsewhere.
His Charlie Martens trilogy–Vernon Downs, World Gone Water, and Garden Lakes–is published in an omnibus by Roundabout Press to celebrate the story collection Minor Characters, (ToC), featuring original stories about the minor characters in the trilogy by Mona Awad, Christopher Boucher, Kenneth Calhoun, Nina de Gramont, Ben Greenman, Annie Hartnett, Owen King, Neil LaBute, J. Robert Lennon, Lauren Mechling, Shelly Oria, Stacey Richter, Joseph Salvatore, Andrea Seigel, and Daniel Torday. The collection features a foreword by Jonathan Lethem, and an introduction by Laura van den Berg.
Clarke is also the editor of The Last Novel Ever Published, as well as the anthologies Don’t You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, and Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers; and co-editor of the anthologies No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine (with Mary Cotton), (ToC) and Boston Noir 2: The Classics (with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.
Under the pseudonym J.D. West, he is the author of the Golden Age detective novel, The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery. (Harold Ober with his wife and Scottie Fitzgerald)
He is a founding editor of the literary magazine Post Road, now published at Boston College, and co-owner, with his wife, of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston. (Newtonville Books’s 20th anniversary video) (Anniversary video by Mona Awad and Kenneth Calhoun) (Newtonville Books video: “Where do you hold your events?”)
Correspondence – Mary Cotton
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Letter from Literacy Volunteers of Maricopa County acknowledging receipt of donation
We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence with Bret Easton Ellis re Garden Lakes
Ellis, Bret Easton
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Melnyczuk, Askold
University of Massachusetts Boston
Correspondence with Justin Manask at Gotler Associates re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Manuscript – Garden Lakes – Novel. Typed, pgs 1-386. Annotated by JDC.
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Correspondence with Webster Younce at Picador USA re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Correspondence with Coates Bateman at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
University of Massachusetts Boston
Melnyczuk, Askold
Correspondence with Brendan Cahill at Gotham Books/Penguin Putnam re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Correspondence with William S. Rose, Jr. re The Rose Literary Agency representing Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Outline for Garden Lakes; incl two disks and various outlining materials.
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Post Road Magazine – Email from Grub Street to Michael Rosovsky re appearing on a panel at the Muse and the Marketplace representing Post Road; incl flyer poster.
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Post Road Magazine – Observer piece entitled “Eggers v the establishment” incl mention of Post Road by Rick Moody; incl email exchange with RM about the mention.
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Welcome packet from the University of Massachusetts at Boston
University of Massachusetts Boston
Melnyczuk, Askold
Irish Examiner article re O What Fun We’ll Have! O the Times! + The Morning Call (Allentown, PA) article + Spanish language newspaper article
Salinger, J.D.
Literary Journey
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Post Road Magazine – Email exchanges with Mike Neff re Post Road and Web del Sol; incl Poets & Writers article on Web del Sol with mention of Post Road.
Post Road Magazine
Salinger, J.D.
Literary Journey
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Ricco Siasoco, David Ryan, and Cat Parnell re the Post Road website
Post Road Magazine
University of Massachusetts Boston
Melnyczuk, Askold
Rosovsky, Michael
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Post Road Magazine – Email from Kristina Lucenko re Rick Barthelme assigning Post Road in his class at Univ of Mississippi
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between Cat Parnell and Randi Triant re Testa Horowitz and Thieboult taking on Post Road as a pro bono client re becoming a 501c(3)
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Post Road Magazine – Email from Aaron Welborn, managing editor of Black Warrior Review praising Post Road
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Cat Parnell re Post Road’s FTP site
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Post Road Magazine – Email from Ricco Siasoco re creation of email addresses for Post Road editors
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Cat Parnell and editors re Cat’s leaving the magazine
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Post Road Magazine – Email re Askold Melnyczuk’s invitation to Cat Parnell to attend panel at UMass Boston
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University of Massachusetts Boston
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Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to Cat Parnell re change in copyediting procedure
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Post Road Magazine – Email to JDC from Askold Melnyczuk forwarded through Harold Ober re AM acknowledgement in Post Road 6
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Post Road Magazine – Email to Josephine Bergin re Post Road 7 production schedule
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Post Road Magazine – Email to Hillary Chute from Post Road contributor Eric Tyrone McLeod thanking her for editing his piece “Selling Out: Consumer Culture and Commodification of the Male Body” for length for Post Road
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Post Road Magazine – Email from Robert Lopez re being contacted by an agent via his story “Scar” in Post Road
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Victoria Clausi re a Post Road event at the 10th anniversary residency; incl July 31 email from Liam Rector, Priscilla Hodgkins, and Victoria about the 10th anniversary of the program.
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Post Road Magazine – Email from Pete Hausler re finding Post Road in the Union Square Barnes and Noble in NYC
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Robert Atwan, series editor for Best American Essays, re “The Shack of Art and Healing” by Oona Hyla Patrick being listed as a Notable Essay of 2003; incl Atwan’s invitation for Pete Hausler to represent Post Road at the Blue Hills Writing Institute.
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Post Road Magazine – Various email exchanges with fiction and poetry and nonfiction editors re instituting electronic submissions
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to editors announcing Josephine Bergin as Etcetera editor, replacing JDC
Bergin, Josephine
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Post Road Magazine – October 2003 invitation from Pushcart Press to nominate pieces from Post Road; incl Post Road’s nominations: “Animal Hater” by Samuel Ligon, “Since It’s You” by Peter Brown, “Selling Out: Consumer Culture and Commodification of the Male Body” by Eric Tyrone McLeod, “The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea” by Larry O’Connor, “Self Portrait” by Tracy K. Smith, and “A Confederacy” by David Daniel.
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Post Road Magazine – Email with updated editor contact info, incl Marcus McGraw as nonfiction editor.
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Denis Woychuk, owner of KGB Bar in NYC, re a proposed merger between Post Road and KGB; incl corr re the Post Road party on Dec 11 to celebrate the release of Post Road 7.
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Grub Street re Mike Rosovsky appearing in their master fiction class on Post Road’s behalf
Rosovsky, Michael
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Post Road Magazine – JDC email to Alden Jones re Post Road honors and contributors to date
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Post Road Magazine – Email to Joanna Yas, editor of Open City Magazine, re a joint Post Road/Open City event in Boston and New York
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Post Road Magazine – re Cheryl Reed as Post Road managing editor (Sept-Nov)
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Brian Kimberling re Post Road’s inclusion in The Writer’s Directory of Short Fiction and Poetry Publications
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Post Road Magazine – Lizard Watch, newsletter for Newtonville Books, mentioning the Oct 18 party at The Attic in Newton Centre to celebrate the release of Post Road 7.
Post Road Magazine
Newtonville Books
Post Road Magazine – Postcard for independent bookstores for inclusion in a complimentary copy of Post Road 7, distributed by Booksense.
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Vincent Standley at 3rd Bed re a joint Post Road/3rd Bed event
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email from Jennifer White at Bennington to JDC and Mike Rosovsky re an interview for a piece on the 10th anniversary of the MFA program for the alumni magazine; incl copy of finished article published Spring/Summer 2004.
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Post Road Magazine – Email from McSweeney’s re a request to Dave Eggers for a recommendation
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Post Road Magazine – Email to Josephine Bergin re production of Post Road 8 and Mary Cotton stepping in for Cheryl Reed as managing editor
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Post Road Magazine – Email to Jeff Marshall at The Paradise re a multi-lit mag party
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Post Road Magazine – Email from Tom Perrotta re “Twenty Questions” for Post Road
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Victoria Clausi at Bennington re Post Road’s search for a new managing editor
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Brother Tom Murphy re using his index of The Great Gatsby in the Etcetera section of Post Road 6
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Updated Editor Contact Info, including addition of Mary Cotton
Cotton, Mary
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with B. Lee Hope re Post Road panel at Stonecoast MFA program, with Mike Rosovsky; incl panel outline.
Rosovsky, Michael
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Post Road Magazine – Email to David Ryan and Sue Breen and Hillary Chute re Post Road meeting at AWP Baltimore, including agenda.
Chute, Hillary
Breen, Susan
Ryan, David
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Testa Horowitz and Thieboult re Post Road’s 501c(3) application
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Feb 2003 copy of Harper’s Magazine featuring “Behold the Couch” by Will Eno, reprinted from Post Road
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Various correspondence re Recommendations for Post Road
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email correspondence with Hignell re the printing of Post Road
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Letter to Tim Huggins from Barry Gifford re Post Road
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Post Road Magazine – Copy of Post Road’s application to the IRS for 501c(3) status
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Fax exchange with Ed Kane’s Water Taxi in Baltimore re JDC’s request to hire a ferry for the Post Road party at AWP
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Lizard Watch, newsletter for Newtonville Books, re Associated Writing Program conference in Baltimore
Post Road Magazine
Newtonville Books
Post Road Magazine – Letter from Edward Hoagland re Post Road party
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Post Road Magazine – Various procedural emails for Mary Cotton re Post Road production
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road’s Board of Directors
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Post Road Magazine – Ingram Periodicals order for Post Road; Bernhard DeBoer distribution list.
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July-Aug: 3343 Sterne St., San Diego, CA
O the Places I've Lived!
Sept-Oct: 79 Morse St., Watertown, MA
O the Places I've Lived!
O the Places I've Lived!
Email from Ken Tucker at Entertainment Weekly soliciting comment re J.D. Salinger (+)
Salinger, J.D.
Correspondence with Ryan Harbage at Simon & Schuster re proposal for oral history of the films of John Hughes
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Correspondence with Justin Manask re proposal for television series based on We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bennington – Correspondence with Victoria Clausi and Cat Parnell re 10th Anniversary and Post Road
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Post Road Magazine
Correspondence with Tamar Brazis re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Correspondence with Jim Schiff at Time Warner Books re Scavengers
Literary Journey
Scavengers: A Novel
Bennington College
Bloomsbury – Manuscript – We’re So Famous – Screenplay. Typed, pgs 1-86
We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence with Tom Perrotta re We’re So Famous screenplay
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We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence with Bret Easton Ellis re Garden Lakes
Ellis, Bret Easton
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Correspondence with Tom Perrotta re “Twenty Questions” feature for Post Road
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Post Road Magazine
Correspondence with Brooke Ehrlich at Rabineau Wachter re We’re So Famous screenplay
We're So Famous: A Novel
Perrotta, Tom
Emerson College – Contract to teach Advanced Creative Writing, Spring 2004
Emerson College
Correspondence with Denise Flaim at New York Newsday re Dale Peck article
Publishers Weekly
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Panagiotis Gianopoulos re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Correspondence with Ryan Harbage re oral history of the films of John Hughes
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Research material for short story “Big Noise” by JDC (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Literary Journey
Correspondence re oral history of films of John Hughes
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Correspondence – Amy Hempel
Hempel, Amy
Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Robert Bookman at Creative Artists Agency re the film rights to We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – edited manuscript for We’re So Famous; incl May 1, 2000 letter from Panio Gianopolous.
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Hartford Courant piece entitled “What’s to Love: Writers Pick Their Favorites” featuring We’re So Famous recommendation by Frederick Barthelme
Barthelme, Frederick
We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence – Askold Melnyczuk
Melnyczuk, Askold
Shout Magazine
We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence – Maria Flook
Flook, Maria
Correspondence – Bob Shacochis
Shacochis, Bob
Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Joel Gotler at Artists Management Group re the film rights to We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Brian Lipson at Endeavor LA re the film rights to We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence – Mary Robison
Robison, Mary
Correspondence – Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
Shout Magazine – November 2000 issue featuring Part Two of serialization of “Cheshires” by JDC. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Shout Magazine
Literary Journey
Shout Magazine – October 2000 issue featuring Part One of serialization of “Cheshires” by JDC. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Shout Magazine
Literary Journey
Bennington College
Bennington College
Shout Magazine
Literary Journey
Correspondence with Jordan Heller at Shout Magazine; includes contracts for articles and copies of receipts for payment.
Shout Magazine
Literary Journey
Correspondence – Karen Braziller at Persea Books
Braziller, Karen
Shout Magazine
Literary Journey
Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis, Bret Easton
Misc re: Bret Easton Ellis including cover for Glamorama + May 2000 issue of Shout Magazine featuring article titled “Star ‘80s: Bestseller Bad Boys: Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney.”
Ellis, Bret Easton
Shout Magazine
Galleys from Xlibris for self-published novel A Complete Gentleman. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Ellis, Bret Easton
Literary Journey
Unrealized Projects
Ellis, Bret Easton
Literary Journey
Unrealized Projects
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Standard Deviation
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We're So Famous: A Novel
Literary Journey
Post Road Magazine – Email to editors re form wording for soliciting work and recommendations
Post Road Magazine
Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – Correspondence re college reading tour with Fuzzy
We're So Famous: A Novel
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence relating to the production of Post Road 1, including corr with editors about the collection of material
Post Road Magazine
Letter from Bettina Schrewe Literary Scouting agency about Bret Easton Ellis oral biography
Ellis, Bret Easton
Literary Journey
Unrealized Projects
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re the release parties for Post Road 1: Fri, Step 15 at Dibrova Social Club in NYC and Sat, Sept 16 at The Joshua Tree in Boston; incl press release about the parties
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road website
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re instituting a slush pile
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re advertising in Post Road, incl corr with other literary magazines about swapping ads
Post Road Magazine
Harold Ober Associates
New York City
New York City
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re the Potpourri section, renamed the Etcetera Section with JDC as editor
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re not having book reviews in Post Road
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re how to collect material from editors
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email asking editors to come to the print shop to help assemble Post Road 1
Post Road Magazine
Chute, Hillary
Rosovsky, Michael
Ryan, David
Breen, Susan
Boyd, Rebecca
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine contract template
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re a policy against publishing friends, Benningtonites, etc.
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
O the Places I've Lived!
Correspondence – Jamie Clarke; incl CD for band Perfect
Clarke, Jamie
Bauer, Douglas
Literary Journey
Literary Journey
Scavengers: A Novel
Drawing of JDC from Hollywood Wax Museum
New York City
Correspondence – Knox Burger
Burger, Knox
Bennington College
We're So Famous: A Novel
Postcard from Harold Ober Associates acknowledging receipt of Scavengers
Harold Ober Associates
Literary Journey
Scavengers: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bret Easton Ellis blurb for We're So Famous: “Jaime Clarke pulls off a sympathetic act of sustained male imagination: entering the minds of innocent teenage girls dreaming of fame. A glibly surreal world where the only thing wanted is notoriety and all you really desire leads to celebrity and where stardom is the only point of reference. What’s new about this novel is how unconsciously casual the characters’ drives are. This lust is as natural to them as being American-it’s almost a birthright.”
Ellis, Bret Easton
We're So Famous: A Novel
Jonathan Ames blurb for We're So Famous: “Darkly and pinkly comic, this is the story of a trio of teenage American girls and their pursuit of the three big Ms of American life: Music, Movies and Murder. An impressive debut by a talented young novelist.”
Ames, Jonathan
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Bob Shacochis blurb for We're So Famous: “Jaime Clarke is a masterful illusionist; in his deft hands, emptiness seems full, teenage pathos appears sassy and charming. We’re So Famous is a blithe, highly entertaining indictment of the permanent state of adolescence that trademarks our culture, a made-for-TV world where innocence is hardly a virtue, ambition barely a value system.”
Shacochis, Bob
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Village Voice listing for We’re So Famous reading at Astor Place Barnes & Noble, April 11, 2001.
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Newtonville Books
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
University of Arizona
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Wallace, David Foster
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Bloomsbury – Nzoom.com review of We’re So Famous
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We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Postcard from Mary Robison re We’re So Famous
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Bloomsbury – Brophy College Preparatory alumni magazine, August 2001, includes announcement of We’re So Famous royalty donation to Literary Volunteers of Maricopa County.
Brophy College Preparatory – Phoenix, AZ
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Letter from Amy Hempel re We’re So Famous
Hempel, Amy
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Bloomsbury – Brophy College Preparatory alumni magazine, January 2001, includes announcement of publication of We’re So Famous.
Brophy College Preparatory – Phoenix, AZ
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University of Arizona
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Bloomsbury – Kirkus review of We’re So Famous
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Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Leslie Epstein re Publishers Weekly and We’re So Famous
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Publishers Weekly
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Bloomsbury – New York Times Book Review capsule review of We’re So Famous
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Bloomsbury – Publishers Weekly review of We’re So Famous
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We're So Famous: A Novel