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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

2003

Correspondence with Bret Easton Ellis re Garden Lakes

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Correspondence with Justin Manask at Gotler Associates re Garden Lakes

2003

Manuscript – Garden Lakes – Novel.  Typed, pgs 1-386.  Annotated by JDC.

2003

Correspondence with Webster Younce at Picador USA re Garden Lakes

2003

Correspondence with Coates Bateman at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday re Garden Lakes

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Correspondence with Brendan Cahill at Gotham Books/Penguin Putnam re Garden Lakes

2003

Correspondence with William S. Rose, Jr. re The Rose Literary Agency representing Garden Lakes

2003

Outline for Garden Lakes; incl two disks and various outlining materials.

2003

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.

2003

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.

2003

Welcome packet from the University of Massachusetts at Boston

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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.

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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Ricco Siasoco, David Ryan, and Cat Parnell re the Post Road website

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Post Road Magazine – Email from Kristina Lucenko re Rick Barthelme assigning Post Road in his class at Univ of Mississippi

2003

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)

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from Aaron Welborn, managing editor of Black Warrior Review praising Post Road

2003

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

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange between JDC and Cat Parnell and editors re Cat’s leaving the magazine

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email re Askold Melnyczuk’s invitation to Cat Parnell to attend panel at UMass Boston

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to Cat Parnell re change in copyediting procedure

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email to JDC from Askold Melnyczuk forwarded through Harold Ober re AM acknowledgement in Post Road 6

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email to Josephine Bergin re Post Road 7 production schedule

2003

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

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from Robert Lopez re being contacted by an agent via his story “Scar” in Post Road

2003

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.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from Pete Hausler re finding Post Road in the Union Square Barnes and Noble in NYC

2003

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.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Various email exchanges with fiction and poetry and nonfiction editors re instituting electronic submissions

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from JDC to editors announcing Josephine Bergin as Etcetera editor, replacing JDC

2003

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.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email with updated editor contact info, incl Marcus McGraw as nonfiction editor.

2003

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.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Grub Street re Mike Rosovsky appearing in their master fiction class on Post Road’s behalf

2003

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to Alden Jones re Post Road honors and contributors to date

2003

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

2003

Post Road Magazine – re Cheryl Reed as Post Road managing editor (Sept-Nov)

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Brian Kimberling re Post Road’s inclusion in The Writer’s Directory of Short Fiction and Poetry Publications

2003

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.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Postcard for independent bookstores for inclusion in a complimentary copy of Post Road 7, distributed by Booksense.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Vincent Standley at 3rd Bed re a joint Post Road/3rd Bed event

2003

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.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from McSweeney’s re a request to Dave Eggers for a recommendation

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email to Josephine Bergin re production of Post Road 8 and Mary Cotton stepping in for Cheryl Reed as managing editor

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email to Jeff Marshall at The Paradise re a multi-lit mag party

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email from Tom Perrotta re “Twenty Questions” for Post Road

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Victoria Clausi at Bennington re Post Road’s search for a new managing editor

2003

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

2003

Post Road Magazine – Updated Editor Contact Info, including addition of Mary Cotton

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with B. Lee Hope re Post Road panel at Stonecoast MFA program, with Mike Rosovsky; incl panel outline.

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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.

2003

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Testa Horowitz and Thieboult re Post Road’s 501c(3) application

2003

Post Road Magazine – Feb 2003 copy of Harper’s Magazine featuring “Behold the Couch” by Will Eno, reprinted from Post Road

2003

Post Road Magazine – Various correspondence re Recommendations for Post Road

2003

Post Road Magazine – Email correspondence with Hignell re the printing of Post Road

2003

Post Road Magazine – Letter to Tim Huggins from Barry Gifford re Post Road

2003

Post Road Magazine – Copy of Post Road’s application to the IRS for 501c(3) status

2003

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

2003

Post Road Magazine – Lizard Watch, newsletter for Newtonville Books, re Associated Writing Program conference in Baltimore

2003

Post Road Magazine – Letter from Edward Hoagland re Post Road party

2003

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

2003

Post Road Magazine – Ingram Periodicals order for Post Road; Bernhard DeBoer distribution list.

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Email from Ken Tucker at Entertainment Weekly soliciting comment re J.D. Salinger (+)

2004

Correspondence with Ryan Harbage at Simon & Schuster re proposal for oral history of the films of John Hughes

2004

Correspondence with Justin Manask re proposal for television series based on We’re So Famous

2004

Bennington – Correspondence with Victoria Clausi and Cat Parnell re 10th Anniversary and Post Road

2004

Correspondence with Tamar Brazis re Garden Lakes

2004

Correspondence with Jim Schiff at Time Warner Books re Scavengers

2004
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Bloomsbury – Manuscript – We’re So Famous – Screenplay.  Typed, pgs 1-86

2004

Correspondence with Tom Perrotta re We’re So Famous screenplay

2004

Correspondence with Bret Easton Ellis re Garden Lakes

2004
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Correspondence with Tom Perrotta re “Twenty Questions” feature for Post Road

2004

Correspondence with Brooke Ehrlich at Rabineau Wachter re We’re So Famous screenplay

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Emerson College – Contract to teach Advanced Creative Writing, Spring 2004

2004

Correspondence with Denise Flaim at New York Newsday re Dale Peck article

2004

Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Panagiotis Gianopoulos re Garden Lakes

2004

Correspondence with Ryan Harbage re oral history of the films of John Hughes

2004

Research material for short story “Big Noise” by JDC (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

2004

Correspondence re oral history of films of John Hughes

2004

Correspondence with Webster Younce re Garden Lakes

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Correspondence re engagement to Mary Cotton

2004

Correspondence with Panio Gianopoulos re Garden Lakes

2004

New York Newsday article entitled “Critical Mass” featuring quote from JDC

2004

Correspondence with James Schiff at Time Warner Books re Garden Lakes

2004

Manuscript – proposal for an oral history of the films of John Hughes; includes declining letter from Ryan Harbage at Simon & Schuster

2004

Correspondence with Coates Bateman re Garden Lakes

2004

Correspondence and proofs from Hobart Magazine re “This, Too, Stars You” by JDC, edited by Ryan Boudinot. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

2004

Correspondence with Elizabeth Sheinkman re Garden Lakes

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange re closing Post Road’s NYC address at 853 Broadway in favor of POB 400951 in Cambridge, MA

2004

Post Road Magazine – Lizard Watch, newsletter of Newtonville Books, announcing release of Post Road 7

2004

Correspondence with various editors re auction of JDC memoir O What Fun We’ll Have! O the Times!

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email from Sean Dessureau re postroadmag.com being a finalist for the 2004 Web Awards at South by Southwest

2004

Correspondence with New York agents re Garden Lakes

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Post Road Magazine – Email to editors re Ricco Siasoco leaving Post Road as web editor

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Ingram Periodicals re Post Road distribution

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Grub Street re Post Road and GS partnering for a fiction prize

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email to Alden Jones and Josephine Bergin re the history of the Etcetera Section

2004

Correspondence with Hollywood agents re We’re So Famous screenplay

2004

Post Road Magazine – Lizard Watch, newsletter of Newtonville Books, announcing the publication of Post Road 8

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email to editors announcing Mary Cotton’s ascension as Publisher and President of the Board with JDC as VP of the Board and switching from Etcetera section to Recommendation section

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email from Mary Cotton to editors re upcoming events at Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at The Loft in Minneapolis

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Alden Jones re the publication of poems originating in Iran against the U.S. embargo against publication of work from embargoed countries

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Hignell re the dissolution of Post Road’s relationship with Hignell after Post Road 8.

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Devon Sprague re joining Post Road as a Recommendations editor

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange re having Google AdSense on Post Road website

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with fiction and poetry editors re management of the Post Road slushpile

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email from Heather Fisher re copyediting Post Road

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email from Mary Cotton to Post Road editors re the contents of Post Road 9

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Edwards Brothers printers re printing Post Road

2004

Post Road Magazine – Copyright discussion via email with Margot Schlipp from Quarterly West, Rie Fortenberry from The Mississippi Review, Elissa Schappell at Tin House, Brigid Hughes at The Paris Review, Rebecca Wolff at Fence, and Joanna Yas at Open City re copyediting procedures

2004

Post Road Magazine – Pro Bono invoiced from Testa, Hurwitz, and Thibeault re Post Road

2004

Post Road Magazine – Associated Writing Program conference in Chicago, including: AWP conference bulletin, work schedule for Post Road table, email to Josephine Bergin re signage for Post Road table, and registration forms

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email announcement from Victoria Clausi to the Bennington community re the release party for Post Road 9 on Sat, Dec 4 at The Attic Bar in Newton Centre

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Victoria Clausi re Post Road at the MFA program’s 10th anniversary residency

2004

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Susan Breen, Mary Cotton, and Jennifer Lawson, Esq at Testa, Hurwitz, and Thibeault re the use of copyrights held by the Walt Disney Company by an artist in the art section for Post Road 9.

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email to editors re IRS’s approval of Post Road’s nonprofit status; incl email exchange with Testa, Hurwitz, and Thibeault.

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email to Eric Tyrone McLeod re a request to reprint “Selling Out: Consumer Culture and Commodification of the Male Body” from Post Road in a St. Martin’s Press textbook

2004

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Testa, Hurwitz, and Thibeault re trademarking Post Road

2004
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Post Road Magazine – Copy of IRS letter granting Post Road nonprofit status

2004
2004

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown re a Post Road party at FAWC on July 24; incl correspondence with party sponsors Triple 8 Distillery and Brooklyn Brewery.

2004

Post Road Magazine – Mary Cotton email to Post Road editors with a recap of AWP in Chicago + email to Post Road editors re Post Road’s registration for AWP 2005 in Vancouver

2004
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June: Alden, NY

2004

Bananarama interview with Attitude Magazine with JDC mention

2005
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Invitation to book party for Misfortune: A Novel by Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding)

2005
2005

Manuscript – Vernon Downs – novel, pgs 1-130.  First draft.  Annotated by Mary Cotton.

2005
2005

Correspondence with Richard Eoin Nash at Softskull Press re A Complete Gentleman. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)

2005
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Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis

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Itinerary and directions for Clarke/Cotton honeymoon through Canada to Nova Scotia, July 25-Aug 4

2005

Correspondence – Tom Perrotta re Best American Short Stories

2005
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Manuscript – “The Oswald Sightings” – Short story. Handwritten draft, pages 1-41. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

2005
2005

Correspondence – Kelly Thomas at Mockingbird Pictures re We’re So Famous

2005
2005

2006 Novel and Short Story Writers Market featuring interview with JDC and Mary Cotton for article titled “The Lowdown on Low-Residency MFA Programs.”

2005

Various correspondence re untitled John Hughes anthology – Simon & Schuster

2005

Correspondence – Karen Braziller at Persea Books re Garden Lakes

2005

Declining letter from A Public Space re Vernon Downs (novella)

2005

JDC contract with Emerson College dated 12.01.05 re teaching Advanced Fiction (WP311E) and Advanced Personal Essay (WP316), Spring 2006

2005

Correspondence with Tamar Brazis at Abrams Books re Garden Lakes

2005

Vox Pop generated uncorrected galley of Vernon Downs by JDC (+)

2005
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Correspondence with Constance McCashin re We’re So Famous screenplay

2005
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JDC contract with Emerson College dated 07.01.05 to teach Intro to Fiction, Fall 2005

2005

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Wylie Agency re “Twenty Questions with David Mamet“; incl copy of Mar 28 contract

2005

Post Road Magazine – Confidential solicitations to potential institutional homes for Post Road: University of Arizona Poetry Center, Alan Davis at New Rivers Press at Minnesota State University, Gotham Writers’ Workshop in NYC, Liam Rector and Victoria Clausi at Bennington College, and Steven Cramer at Lesley University

2005

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Victoria Clausi and Liam Rector re various Post Road listings in Bennington MFA program newsletters

2005

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with JT Leroy re a recommendation for Post Road

2005

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road Ambassadorship Program in Los Angeles, Miami, Toronto, Minneapolis, Atlanta, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle incl listing from Willamette Week for Portland Post Road party

2005

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re adding Lissa Warren and Nicolette Nicola as poetry editors

2005

Post Road Magazine – JDC email exchange with Kathy Lasker re quote for printing Post Road on demand

2005

Post Road Magazine – JDC email exchange with Ingram Periodicals re creating Post Road Books

2005

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Steven Cramer at Lesley University re a partnership with Post Road

2005

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re finding a new copyeditor

2005

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re trademarking Post Road

2005

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re release parties for Post Road 10: Sat, Apr 30 at Middlesex Lounge in Boston and Thu, May 26 at KGB Bar in NYC; incl Boston Globe mention of Middlesex Lounge party.

2005

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road raffling off manuscript evaluations by Robert Pinsky, Amy Hempel and Sven Birkerts; incl copy of May/June 2005 issue of Poets & Writers featuring classified ad for raffle

2005

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Middlesex Lounge re Post Road reading series

2005

Post Road Magazine – Mary Cotton letter to Neal Pollack asking him and his band to perform at the Post Road party at AWP Austin March 8-11, 2006; incl NP response.

2005

Post Road Magazine – Various permissions requests to reprint “Selling Out: Consumer Culture and Commodification of the Male Body” by Eric Tyrone McLeod from University Missouri-Columbia and Boston College

2005

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to Tim Bell at the University of Arizona Poetry Center re organizing the Post Road archives warehoused at the Poetry Center while in Tucson

2005

Post Road Magazine – Program for May 14-15 Muse and the Marketplace, hosted by Grub Street, including Post Road table sign and copy of Grub Street’s Free Press

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