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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

2003

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

2003
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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

2003

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

2003
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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
2004

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

2004
2004

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

Post Road Magazine – Oct 25 Lizard Watch, newsletter of Newtonville Books, re the release party for Post Road 11 on Sat, Nov 19 at Middlesex Lounge in Boston

2005
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Felicia Sullivan re Post Road participating in the Legion of Lit Mags fair in Brooklyn

2005

Post Road Magazine – Dec 27 Lizard Watch, newsletter of Newtonville Books, announcing Post Road’s raffle of ten signed first editions

2005

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Will Quackenbush at the Enormous Room re future Post Road events

2005

Post Road Magazine – Conference bulletin for Associated Writing Program conference in Vancouver, March 30-Apr 2; incl letter from Priscilla Hodgkins at Bennington College re their check for co-hosting the Post Road party; postcard invites for Post Road party at Steamworks Brewing Company on Fri, Apr 1; and paperwork re importing Post Road into Canada for sale at AWP conference.

2005

Post Road Magazine – Column by Alex Beam in The Boston Globe re mention of Jonathan Ames in Post Road

2005

Post Road Magazine – Schedule of subjects for “Twenty Questions” feature, including due dates to advertise for questions, collect questions, submit questions, publish questions

2005

Post Road Magazine – Submission Guidelines and instructions for poetry and fiction slushpile readers

2005

Post Road Magazine – Various Post Road forms, including cover letter to contributor re contract, cover letter to contributor re copyedited version of piece, letter to bookstore owners seeking readers for Post Road slushpile, letter to lit mags requesting swap subscription, letter soliciting a recommendation for Post Road rec section, letter to Newtonville Books First Editions Club members re subscribing to Post Road, invoice to those who subscribed at Post Road parties, and email sign up sheet.

2005

Post Road Magazine – Boston Phoenix article on Post Road titled “A Road More Traveled” by Tamara Wieder

2005
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Correspondence – Various Benningtonites re Vernon Downs

2006

JDC Authors Guild Info Packet

2006

Correspondence – Post Road/Lesley/LVF merger

2006

Correspondence – Michael O’Keefe re We’re So Famous

2006
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April 15, 2006 contract with Kelly Thomas and Nick Spicer at Mockingbird Pictures for one year film option on We’re So Famous

2006

Impetus Press page layout for Vernon Downs with JDC correx

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Correspondence – Impetus Press re Garden Lakes

2006
2006

December 12, 2005 contract with Impetus Press for Vernon Downs

2006

Manuscript – drafts 1-6 of treatment for film version of We’re So Famous; incl notes from Nick Spicer for each draft.

2006

Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol II

2006

Manuscript – copyedited version of Vernon Downs

2006

Manuscript – formal Hughes proposal for Dystel Goderich Literary Management titled Some Kind of Wonderful: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes (retitled Don't You Forget About Me), edited by JDC with essays from Steve Almond, Julianna Baggott, Lisa Borders, Ryan Boudinot, T Cooper, Quinn Dalton, Nina de Gramont, Emily Franklin, Lisa Gabriele, Tod Goldberg, Tara Ison, Allison Lynn, John McNally, Dan Pope, Lewis Robinson, Ben Schrank, Elizabeth Searle, Mary Sullivan, Rebecca Wolff, and Moon Unit Zappa

2006

Publishers Marketplace announcement of Some Kind of Wonderful (retitled Don't You Forget About Me) deal with Simon Spotlight Entertainment

2006

Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol I

2006

Manuscript – JDC handwritten introduction to Vernon Downs

2006
2006

Manuscript – We’re So Famous – screenplay – Gertrude version

2006

Contracts between JDC and contributors for John Hughes anthology

2006

Copyedited version of Vernon Downs, bound

2006

Photocopies of various Hughes anthology essays, edited by Terra Chalberg at Simon Spotlight Entertainment

2006

Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol III

2006
2006

Galley for Don’t You Forget About Me (formerly Some Kind of Wonderful), edited by JDC

2006

Photocopy of check for on-signing money for John Hughes anthology

2006

Manuscript – We’re So Famous – screenplay – Claudine version, incl notes and outline

2006

Page proofs for Don’t You Forget About Me, edited by JDC

2006

Contract between JDC and Ally Sheedy re introduction to John Hughes anthology, incl correspondence.

2006
2006

Correspondence with Mike Jones at Bloomsbury UK re Vernon Downs

2006

Impetus cover for Vernon Downs

2006

Fall 2006/Winter 2007 Bennington alumni magazine featuring mention of Vernon Downs by JDC

2006
2006

Correspondence with Impetus Press re Vernon Downs

2006

Correspondence with Bret Easton Ellis re Vernon Downs

2006

Impetus page proofs for Vernon Downs

2006

JDC generated key for Vernon Downs

2006

Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol IV

2006

Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol V

2006

Impetus catalogue copy for Vernon Downs

2006

Manuscript – O What Fun We’ll Have! O the Times! by JDC

2006

Manuscript – We’re So Famous screenplay, Gertrude Version 3, typed, 108pgs.

2006

JDC generated Q&A for Impetus re Vernon Downs

2006

Manuscript – We’re So Famous screenplay, Gertrude Version 2, edited by JDC; incl outline and subsequent outline by JDC and Nick Spicer

2006

Manuscript – We’re So Famous – screenplay – Gertrude version 2, incl notes and outline.

2006

Correspondence re potential purchase of Newtonville Books

2006
2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Board of Directors, incorporating Literary Ventures Fund

2006

Correspondence – What I Wanted to Be: A Memoir by JDC

2006

Corrrespondence – Mockingbird Pictures re We’re So Famous screenplay

2006
2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Lesley interns at Post Road

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re merger with Lesley University MFA program and Literary Ventures Fund

2006
2006

Manuscript – What I Wanted to Be: A Memoir by JDC

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Adam Braver contributing interviews to the Etcetera section

2006

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors announcing Post Road/Lesley/Literary Ventures Fund two-year partnership, including press release

2006

Post Road Magazine – Mary Cotton email to editors re Karen E. Bender nominating “Now It’s Clean” by Nina de Gramont for a Pushcart Prize

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Post Road Ambassadors re Post Road 12 release parties

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with summer youth camps re donating excess copies of Post Road

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Post Road Ambassador Blake Butler, Pablo at Mark Ultralounge, and Steven Cramer at Lesley re March 2 AWP Atlanta party in 2007

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re reprinting “Selling Out: Consumer Culture and Commodification of the Male Body” by Eric Tyrone McLeod in an anthology published by the University of California San Diego

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Mary Cotton appearance on The Jordan Rich Show (radio) and WICN’s Inquiry (radio)

2006

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re using copyedited electronic galleys instead of paper galleys

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Lit Mag Holiday Parties at the Mercury Lounge in NYC on Dec 17 with One Story, Fence, Open City, Tin House, and A Public Space at The Paradise in Boston on Dec 4 with Redivider, Ploughshares, Agni, Quick Fiction, Salamander and Night Train; incl Village Voice listing for NYC party and Boston Globe “Shelf Life” piece.

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Victoria Clausi at Bennington MFA program re a Post Road/Bennington merger; including Mar 17 newsletter recapping Austin Post Road/Bennington party.

2006

Post Road Magazine – re Post Road/Four Stories event on Sept 25 featuring Lise Haines, Richard Hoffman, Randi Triant, and Paul Yoon.

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re “Twenty Questions” with David Mamet

2006

Post Road Magazine – Bennington College newsletter re Post Road attending the Legion of Lit Mag Party at Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; incl correspondence with Felicia Sullivan, organizer.

2006

Post Road Magazine – Lizard Watch, newsletter of Newtonville Books, announcing May 15 release party for Post Road 12 at the Enormous Room in Cambridge; correspondence with NYC Post Road Ambassador Shomit Barua re May 18 release party at Lolita Bar on Lower East Side.

2006

Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors announcing Samantha Pitchel as Assistant Managing Editor

2006
2006

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange re Oona Patrick joining Post Road as a nonfiction editor

2006

Post Road Magazine – Open City Books press release re the publication of The First Hurt by Rachel Sherman, including work published in Post Road; incl RS interview with Bookslut.com.

2006

Post Road Magazine – Noemi Press announcement re the publication of Disciplines by Diana George, incl work published in Post Road

2006

Post Road Magazine – Boston Phoenix interview with Heidi Julavits including mention of Post Road

2006

Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham re idea of purchasing Newtonville Books and turning it into Post Road Books, a nonprofit bookstore

2006

Post Road Magazine – Post Road proposals to Literary Ventures Fund for Post Road anthology, Open Letters to Subscribers, Silent Auction, and hiring someone to maintain Post Road’s website.

2006

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Lit Mag Holiday parties, incl with performers Mike Albo, Sam Lipsyte, Molly Jong-Fast (NYC) and Elizabeth Searle, Daphne Kalotay, and Tom Perrotta (Boston); incl copy of invite

2006
2006

Post Road Magazine – Outline for Post Road presentation at Lesley University MFA program

2006

Post Road Magazine – 2006 Pushcart nominations: “On the History of the Backgammon Board” by Paul Yoon, “Alabama” by Murray Dunlap, “I Spy” by Elizabeth Powell, “July 19, 1962: Susanna Martin” by Jill McDonough, “Spotlighting” by Ira Sukrungruang, and “Blood and Luck” by Becky Bradway.

2006
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