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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

2004
2004

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

2004
2004

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
2004
2004

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
2004
2004

June: Alden, NY

2004

Bananarama interview with Attitude Magazine with JDC mention

2005
2005
2005

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
2005

Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis

2005
2005
2005
2005

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
2005

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
2005

Correspondence with Constance McCashin re We’re So Famous screenplay

2005
2005

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

2005
2005
1996

Manuscript – Bennington – Sections for novel version of A Complete Gentleman.  Annotated by Amy Hempel.

1996

Manuscript – Bennington – January 1996 residency workshop – “This Way Is Over.”  (Rewrite of “Monthly Payments.”) Short story.  Typed, pgs 1-17.  Annotated by Amy Hempel.

1996

Manuscript – Bennington – “Renters.”  Short story. Typed, pgs 1-18. Annotated by Amy Hempel. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1996
1996
1996
1996
1996
1996

Manuscript – Bennington – “My Literary Apprenticeship.” Essay. Typed, pgs 1-20. Annotated by Amy Hempel.

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald Antrim.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Typical by Padgett Powell.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Ice at the Bottom of the World by Mark Richard.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “An Amateur’s Guide to Night by Mary Robison.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – On Sharon Olds’s poetry.

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Orbit from The Spectacle of the Body by Noy Holland.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – On Steps by Jerzy Kosinski, Speedboat by Renata Adler, and Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick.

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ray by Barry Hannah.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “My Hard Bargain by Walter Kirn.”

1996

Manuscript – June 1996 Workshop.  “Renters.”  Short story. Typed, pgs 1-15. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1996

Manuscript – June 1996 Workshop.  “Renters.”  Short story.  Typed, pgs 1-15.  Annotated by Maria Flook. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1996
1996

Manuscript – Bennington – “Signaling.”  (Rewrite of “Renters.”) Short story.  Typed, pgs 1-16. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1996
1996
1996
1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Stardust, 7-Eleven, Route 57, A&W, And So Forth by Patricia Lear.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons.”

1996
1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Into the Great Wide Open by Kevin Canty.”

1996

Manuscript – Bennington – “Lights, Camera, Darkness.” (Later titles: “Screen Test” + “This, Too Stars You”) Short story. Typed, pgs 1-13. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Andrew Turnball.”

1996
1996

Manuscript – Bennington –  “Ex-Urbana.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-17. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Rock Springs by Richard Ford.”

1996
1996

Manuscript – Bennington – “What You’ll Find When the Tide Comes In.”  Short story. Typed, pgs 1-21. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1996

Manuscript – Bennington – “We’re So Famous.”  Short story.  Typed, pgs 1-7. Annotated by Betsy Cox. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

1996

October 24, 1996 contract with the Mississippi Review for the publication of “We’re So Famous”

1996

JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Morvern Callar by Alan Warner.”

1996
1996
1996

October 31, 1996 letter from the Mississippi Review with page proofs for “We’re So Famous”

1996

Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, edited by JDC.

1996

Manuscript – Bennington – JDC Graduate Lecture. w/letter from Bret Easton Ellis.

1996

Bennington – Final thesis (Standard Deviation) review by Betsy Cox

1996

Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, edited by BEE.

1996

Bennington – Final thesis (Standard Deviation) second review by Bob Shacochis

1996
1996
1996

Manuscript – Bennington – JDC Graduate Lecture. Annotated by Amy Hempel.

1996

Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, conducted in NYC in November 1996. Two microcassette tapes and transcript of interview.

1996
1996
1997
1997
1997
1997
1997

Correspondence – Amy Hempel

1997
1997

Correspondence – Douglas Bauer

1997

Correspondence – Maria Flook

1997

Correspondence – Frederick Barthelme

1997
1997
1997
1997

Correspondence – Charles Bock

1997
1997

Manuscript – Bennington – Final version of JDC graduate lecture. Typed, pgs 1-16.

1997

Correspondence – Pete Hausler (+)

1997
1997

Proposed table of contents for A Complete Gentleman (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)

1997

Manuscript – A Complete Gentleman. Novel.  First draft.  Typed, pgs 1-136.  Annotated by Bret Easton Ellis. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)

1997

Manuscript – A Complete Gentleman.  Novel.  Second draft.  Typed, pgs 1-126.  Annotated by Bret Easton Ellis. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)

1997
1997

Grave rubbings from road trip to Rockville, MD with Heather Fisher to visit graves of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (1) (2) (3)

1997

Manuscript – A Complete Gentleman.  Novel.  Final draft.  Typed, pgs 1-175.  Annotated by JDC. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)

1997

Manuscript – undated draft of A Complete Gentleman.  Novel. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)

1997
1997
1997

Jan: 4236 N. 103rd Ave., #7, Phoenix, AZ

1997
1997
1997

Sept: Astoria, Queens

1997
1997
1997
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1998

Correspondence – Rick Moody

1998
1998
1998
1998

Correspondence – Douglas Bauer

1998

Correspondence – Charles Bock

1998

Correspondence – Maria Flook

1998
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