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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

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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

2004
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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
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

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
2005

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
2005
2005
2005
2005

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
2006
2006

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

2006
2006

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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