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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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?”)
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
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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
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Post Road Magazine – Dec 27 Lizard Watch, newsletter of Newtonville Books, announcing Post Road’s raffle of ten signed first editions
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Will Quackenbush at the Enormous Room re future Post Road events
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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.
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Post Road Magazine – Column by Alex Beam in The Boston Globe re mention of Jonathan Ames in Post Road
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Post Road Magazine – Schedule of subjects for “Twenty Questions” feature, including due dates to advertise for questions, collect questions, submit questions, publish questions
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Post Road Magazine – Submission Guidelines and instructions for poetry and fiction slushpile readers
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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.
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Post Road Magazine – Boston Phoenix article on Post Road titled “A Road More Traveled” by Tamara Wieder
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Feb-Aug: 42A Carrington Ave, Providence, RI
O the Places I've Lived!
O the Places I've Lived!
Correspondence – Various Benningtonites re Vernon Downs
Bennington College
Vernon Downs: A Novel
JDC Authors Guild Info Packet
Literary Journey
Correspondence – Post Road/Lesley/LVF merger
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Correspondence – Michael O’Keefe re We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence – Christopher “Kit” McIlroy
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University of Arizona
Bennington College
April 15, 2006 contract with Kelly Thomas and Nick Spicer at Mockingbird Pictures for one year film option on We’re So Famous
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Impetus Press page layout for Vernon Downs with JDC correx
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Deal sheet for Some Kind of Wonderful (retitled Don't You Forget About Me); incl May 11, 2006 cover letter for contract with Simon Spotlight Entertainment + May 5, 2006 signed contract
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Correspondence – Impetus Press re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Misc Adventures
December 12, 2005 contract with Impetus Press for Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Manuscript – drafts 1-6 of treatment for film version of We’re So Famous; incl notes from Nick Spicer for each draft.
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Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol II
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Manuscript – copyedited version of Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
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
Almond, Steve
Baggott, Julianna
Borders, Lisa
Boudinot, Ryan
Cooper, T
Dalton, Quinn
de Gramont, Nina
Franklin, Emily
Gabriele, Lisa
Goldberg, Tod
Ison, Tara
Lynn, Allison
McNally, John
Pope, Dan
Robinson, Lewis
Schrank, Ben
Searle, Elizabeth
Sullivan, Mary
Wolff, Rebecca
Zappa, Moon Unit
Sheedy, Ally
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Publishers Marketplace announcement of Some Kind of Wonderful (retitled Don't You Forget About Me) deal with Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol I
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Manuscript – JDC handwritten introduction to Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Manuscript – We’re So Famous – screenplay – Gertrude version
Spicer, Nick
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Contracts between JDC and contributors for John Hughes anthology
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Copyedited version of Vernon Downs, bound
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Photocopies of various Hughes anthology essays, edited by Terra Chalberg at Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol III
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Almond, Steve
Baggott, Julianna
Borders, Lisa
Boudinot, Ryan
Cooper, T
Dalton, Quinn
de Gramont, Nina
Franklin, Emily
Gabriele, Lisa
Goldberg, Tod
Ison, Tara
Lynn, Allison
McNally, John
Pope, Dan
Robinson, Lewis
Schrank, Ben
Searle, Elizabeth
Sullivan, Mary
Wolff, Rebecca
Zappa, Moon Unit
Sheedy, Ally
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Galley for Don’t You Forget About Me (formerly Some Kind of Wonderful), edited by JDC
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Photocopy of check for on-signing money for John Hughes anthology
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Manuscript – We’re So Famous – screenplay – Claudine version, incl notes and outline
Spicer, Nick
We're So Famous: A Novel
Page proofs for Don’t You Forget About Me, edited by JDC
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Contract between JDC and Ally Sheedy re introduction to John Hughes anthology, incl correspondence.
Sheedy, Ally
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Correspondence with Mike Jones at Bloomsbury UK re Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Impetus cover for Vernon Downs
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Fall 2006/Winter 2007 Bennington alumni magazine featuring mention of Vernon Downs by JDC
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Correspondence with Impetus Press re Vernon Downs
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Correspondence with Bret Easton Ellis re Vernon Downs
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Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol IV
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Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol V
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Impetus catalogue copy for Vernon Downs
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Manuscript – O What Fun We’ll Have! O the Times! by JDC
Literary Journey
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Manuscript – We’re So Famous screenplay, Gertrude Version 3, typed, 108pgs.
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JDC generated Q&A for Impetus re Vernon Downs
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Manuscript – We’re So Famous screenplay, Gertrude Version 2, edited by JDC; incl outline and subsequent outline by JDC and Nick Spicer
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Manuscript – We’re So Famous – screenplay – Gertrude version 2, incl notes and outline.
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We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence re potential purchase of Newtonville Books
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Bohjalian, Chris
Cheever, Susan
Gaitskill, Mary
Haigh, Jennifer
Hempel, Amy
Kirn, Walter
Lehane, Dennis
McCracken, Elizabeth
Mattison, Alice
Moody, Rick
Pollack, Neal
Schappell, Elissa
Unrealized Projects
Literary Journey
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Board of Directors, incorporating Literary Ventures Fund
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Correspondence – What I Wanted to Be: A Memoir by JDC
Literary Journey
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Corrrespondence – Mockingbird Pictures re We’re So Famous screenplay
We're So Famous: A Novel
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Lesley interns at Post Road
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re merger with Lesley University MFA program and Literary Ventures Fund
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Post Road Magazine – Associated Writing Program conference in Austin, TX, incl tear sheet of full page ad in conference bulletin for Post Road party on Mar 10 at The Velvet Spade featuring Neal Pollack and the Neal Pollack Invasion; incl correspondence with Bennington College MFA program as co-sponsor.
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Manuscript – What I Wanted to Be: A Memoir by JDC
Literary Journey
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Adam Braver contributing interviews to the Etcetera section
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Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors announcing Post Road/Lesley/Literary Ventures Fund two-year partnership, including press release
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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
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Post Road Ambassadors re Post Road 12 release parties
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with summer youth camps re donating excess copies of Post Road
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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
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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
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Mary Cotton appearance on The Jordan Rich Show (radio) and WICN’s Inquiry (radio)
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Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re using copyedited electronic galleys instead of paper galleys
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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.
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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.
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Post Road Magazine – re Post Road/Four Stories event on Sept 25 featuring Lise Haines, Richard Hoffman, Randi Triant, and Paul Yoon.
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Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re “Twenty Questions” with David Mamet
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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.
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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.
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Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors announcing Samantha Pitchel as Assistant Managing Editor
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Post Road Magazine – Email exchange re Oona Patrick joining Post Road as a nonfiction editor
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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.
Sherman, Rachel
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Post Road Magazine – Noemi Press announcement re the publication of Disciplines by Diana George, incl work published in Post Road
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Post Road Magazine – Boston Phoenix interview with Heidi Julavits including mention of Post Road
Julavits, Heidi
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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
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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.
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No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
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
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Kalotay, Daphne
Lipsyte, Sam
Perrotta, Tom
Searle, Elizabeth
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Post Road Magazine – New Pages interview with William Pierce, editor of AGNI, including references to Post Road
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Post Road Magazine – Outline for Post Road presentation at Lesley University MFA program
Post Road Magazine
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.
Yoon, Paul
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Post Road Magazine
Correspondence – The Last Novel Ever Published
The Last Novel Ever Published
Manuscript – The Melissa Process (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Correspondence – Vernon Downs/US edition (Roundabout Press)
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Correspondence – New American Canon project
Influenced By
Correspondence – Vernon Downs/UK edition (Bloomsbury)
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Manuscript – The Last Novel Ever Published
The Last Novel Ever Published
Correspondence — re proposed Hitchcock anthology titled Fixing Hitchcock, edited by JDC and Jonathan Lethem
Lethem, Jonathan
Contract dated Sept 30 with PFP Publishing re Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers; incl copy of agreement with Danny Jock re the illustrations.
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
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Baum's Bazaar
Furst, Joshua
Baum's Bazaar
Finished copy of Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Bergin, Josephine
Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers
Contract dated March 23 with Roundabout Press re Vernon Downs, incl Nov 28 email from Dan Pope granting Canada to Bloomsbury UK.
Pope, Dan
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Barthelme, Frederick
The Mississippi Review
We're So Famous: A Novel
Manuscript – Vernon Downs (penultimate version)
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Lennon, J. Robert
Baum's Bazaar
Manuscript – Vernon Downs (draft)
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Hoffman, Richard
Baum's Bazaar
Dahlie, Michael
Baum's Bazaar
Albert, Elisa
Baum's Bazaar
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Cotton, Mary
Misc Adventures
Burr, Ty
Castellani, Christopher
Eggers, Dave
Gawande, Atul
Hood, Ann
Lehane, Dennis
Lethem, Jonathan
Newtonville Books
Post Road Magazine
Tickets to Boston Book Festival keynote featuring Salman Rushdie
Boston Book Festival
Misc Adventures
Newtonville Books
Publishers Weekly
Newtonville Books
Heim, Scott
New Order
Literary Journey
Boston Book Festival 2013 Program Guide (+)
Boston Book Festival
Newtonville Books
Porter Square Books Events Program featuring October 7 event Roundtable with Post Road Magazine, featuring Laura van den Berg and Dan Chelotti
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Literary Journey
Publishers Weekly
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Amazon.com
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Livreshebdo.fr article re JDC and Amazon
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Alex Beam column in the Boston Globe entitled “Amazon hate-fest isn’t for me” re JDC website www.pleasedontbuymybookonamazon.com
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Le Figaro article re JDC and Amazon
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Newtonville Books
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Article re JDC and Amazon in Spanish language newspaper El Confidential
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Article re JDC and Amazon in Spanish language newspaper Contra el promedio Mexicano
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Danish web article (bearbooks.se) re JDC and Amazon
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Danish news article (SehaBooks) on JDC and Amazon
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Israel Herald article on JDC and Amazon
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Center for Fiction
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Newtonville Books
Digital Reader piece entitled “How Not to Succeed as an Author: Tell Readers Please Don’t Buy My Book on Amazon”
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Hebrew article re JDC and Amazon
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Notes From the Engine Room re JDC and Amazon
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Marketing Daily piece re JDC and Amazon
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Brookline Booksmith screenshot of Nov 2 event for Boston Noir 2
Barnes, Linda
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
Literary Journey
Correspondence – re proposed Hitchcock anthology titled Fixing Hitchcock, edited by JDC and Jonathan Lethem
Lethem, Jonathan
Bennington College
Correspondence – New American Canon material edited for Believer column
The Believer
Influenced By
Tom Perrotta blurb for Vernon Downs: “Vernon Downs is a gripping, hypnotically written and unnerving look at the dark side of literary adulation. Jaime Clarke’s tautly suspenseful novel is a cautionary tale for writers and readers alike–after finishing it, you may start to think that J.D. Salinger had the right idea after all.”
Perrotta, Tom
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Gary Shteynbart blurb for Vernon Downs: “Moving and edgy in just the right way. Love (or lack of) and Family (or lack of) is at the heart of this wonderfully obsessive novel.”
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Correspondence – Bloomsbury UK re Vernon Downs
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Correspondence – Post Road Magazine
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Dana Spiotta blurb for Vernon Downs: “Vernon Downs is a fascinating and sly tribute to a certain fascinating and sly writer, but this novel also perfectly captures the lonely distortions of a true obsession.”
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Charles Yu blurb for Vernon Downs: “An engrossing novel about longing and impersonation, which is to say, a story about the distance between persons, distances within ourselves. Clarke’s prose is infused with music and intelligence and deep feeling.”
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Matthew Specktor blurb for Vernon Downs: “All strong literature stems from obsession. Vernon Downs belongs to a tradition that includes Nicholson Baker’s U and I, Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage, and—for that matter—Pale Fire. What makes Clarke’s excellent novel stand out isn’t just its rueful intelligence, or its playful semi-veiling of certain notorious literary figures, but its startling sadness. Vernon Downs is first rate.”
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Laura van den Berg blurb for Vernon Downs: “Vernon Downs is a brilliant meditation on obsession, art, and celebrity. Charlie Marten’s mounting fixation with the titular Vernon is not only driven by the burn of heartbreak and the lure of fame, but also a lost young man’s struggle to locate his place in the world. Vernon Downs is an intoxicating novel, and Clarke is a dazzling literary talent.”
van den Berg, Laura
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Bound mock-up of The Melissa Process (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
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Manuscript – World Gone Water, edited by Mary Cotton
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Correspondence – Bloomsbury UK re World Gone Water
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Correspondence – Bloomsbury UK re We’re So Famous ebook
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Contract dated September 24 with Roundabout Press re World Gone Water
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Book trailer for Vernon Downs, narrated by Academy award-winning actor Chris Cooper featuring Aimee Bender, Elisa Albert, Atul Gawande, Ramona Ausubel, Alison Bechdel, Ben Marcus, Charles Bock, Christopher Boucher, Mark Conway, T Cooper, Elizabeth Crane, Michael Dahlie, Tanya Donelly, Jennifer duBois, James Fuerst, Julia Glass, Lev Grossman, Holly LeCraw, James Scott, Leslie Jamison, Joanna Hershon, Jonathan Wilson, Owen King, Allison Lynn, Amy MacKinnon, Gregory Maguire, Rebecca Makkai, Margot Livesey, Jill McCorkle, Paul Harding, Marianne Leone, Paul Yoon, Ivy Pochoda, Henriette Power, Jamie Quatro, Nelly Reifler, Ben Schrank, Elizabeth Searle, Jim Shepard, Karen Shepard, Amy Sohn, Anna Solomon, Jessica Treadway, Dawn Tripp, Laura van den Berg, Wesley Stace, Joan Wickersham, Mary-Beth Hughes, Mary Sullivan, Myla Goldberg, Amy Hempel, Adam Wilson, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Jonathan Ames, Sam Lipsyte, David James Poissant, Tom Perrotta, and Charles Yu
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Conway, Mark
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Wilson, Jonathan
King, Owen
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Manuscript – World Gone Water, edited by Dan Pope
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Roundabout Press galley letter re World Gone Water
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Receipt from Soho House (West Hollywood) dinner with Bret Easton Ellis
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