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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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
Post Road Magazine
Chabon, Michael
Perrotta, Tom
Cooper, Chris
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Felicia Sullivan re Post Road participating in the Legion of Lit Mags fair in Brooklyn
Sullivan, Felicia
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Dec 27 Lizard Watch, newsletter of Newtonville Books, announcing Post Road’s raffle of ten signed first editions
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Will Quackenbush at the Enormous Room re future Post Road events
Post Road Magazine
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.
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Column by Alex Beam in The Boston Globe re mention of Jonathan Ames in Post Road
Ames, Jonathan
Beam, Alex
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Schedule of subjects for “Twenty Questions” feature, including due dates to advertise for questions, collect questions, submit questions, publish questions
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Submission Guidelines and instructions for poetry and fiction slushpile readers
Post Road Magazine
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.
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Boston Phoenix article on Post Road titled “A Road More Traveled” by Tamara Wieder
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
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
Post Road Magazine
Correspondence – Michael O’Keefe re We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence – Christopher “Kit” McIlroy
McIlroy, Christopher “Kit”
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
Spicer, Nick
We're So Famous: A Novel
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.
Spicer, Nick
We're So Famous: A Novel
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
We're So Famous: A Novel
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
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Fall 2006/Winter 2007 Bennington alumni magazine featuring mention of Vernon Downs by JDC
Bennington College
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Correspondence with Impetus Press re Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Correspondence with Bret Easton Ellis re Vernon Downs
Ellis, Bret Easton
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Impetus page proofs for Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
JDC generated key for Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol IV
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
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
Vernon Downs: A Novel
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.
Spicer, Nick
We're So Famous: A Novel
JDC generated Q&A for Impetus re Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Manuscript – We’re So Famous screenplay, Gertrude Version 2, edited by JDC; incl outline and subsequent outline by JDC and Nick Spicer
Spicer, Nick
We're So Famous: A Novel
Manuscript – We’re So Famous – screenplay – Gertrude version 2, incl notes and outline.
Spicer, Nick
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
Post Road Magazine
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
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re merger with Lesley University MFA program and Literary Ventures Fund
Post Road Magazine
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.
Pollack, Neal
Post Road Magazine
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
Braver, Adam
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors announcing Post Road/Lesley/Literary Ventures Fund two-year partnership, including press release
Post Road Magazine
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
Bender, Karen E.
Cotton, Mary
de Gramont, Nina
Pushcart Prize
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Post Road Ambassadors re Post Road 12 release parties
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with summer youth camps re donating excess copies of Post Road
Post Road Magazine
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
Butler, Blake
Post Road Magazine
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
McLeod, Eric Tyrone
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Mary Cotton appearance on The Jordan Rich Show (radio) and WICN’s Inquiry (radio)
Cotton, Mary
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors re using copyedited electronic galleys instead of paper galleys
Post Road Magazine
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.
Post Road Magazine
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.
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – re Post Road/Four Stories event on Sept 25 featuring Lise Haines, Richard Hoffman, Randi Triant, and Paul Yoon.
Hoffman, Richard
Yoon, Paul
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re “Twenty Questions” with David Mamet
Mamet, David
Post Road Magazine
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.
Sullivan, Felicia
Post Road Magazine
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.
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – JDC email to editors announcing Samantha Pitchel as Assistant Managing Editor
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange re Oona Patrick joining Post Road as a nonfiction editor
Post Road Magazine
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
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Noemi Press announcement re the publication of Disciplines by Diana George, incl work published in Post Road
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Boston Phoenix interview with Heidi Julavits including mention of Post Road
Julavits, Heidi
Post Road Magazine
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
Post Road Magazine
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.
Post Road Magazine
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
Albo, Mike
Jong-Fast, Molly
Kalotay, Daphne
Lipsyte, Sam
Perrotta, Tom
Searle, Elizabeth
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – New Pages interview with William Pierce, editor of AGNI, including references to Post Road
Post Road Magazine
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
Pushcart Prize
Post Road Magazine
Bloomsbury – J. Robert Lennon blurb for World Gone Water:
Bloomsbury – Matt Bell blurb for World Gone Water:
Bloomsbury – Amy Grace Loyd blurb for World Gone Water:
Feb 4 Real Change review by Joe Martin of Vernon Downs
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Ausubel, Ramona
Literary Hub
Newtonville Books
Correspondence – Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by JDC, published by IG Books
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Correspondence – Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Manuscript – Charles Bock introduction to Bloomsbury reissue of We’re So Famous
Bock, Charles
We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence – We’re So Famous Bloomsbury reissue + Typical of the Times as an afterword, with an introduction by Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
We're So Famous: A Novel
Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle: A Memoir
Correspondence – re Harold Ober Mystery Teleplay by JDC
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Correspondence – Mary Gaitskill re including her Post Road rec in an upcoming book
Gaitskill, Mary
Post Road Magazine
Manuscript – “The Salinger Principle, or, A Novelist You’ve Never Heard of Calls it Quits” by JDC, published by Literary Hub as “Why I Quit Being a Writer”
Literary Hub
Salinger, J.D.
Literary Journey
Correspondence – re “Why I Quit Being a Writer” by JDC published by the Literary Hub (“The Salinger Principle”)
Literary Hub
Salinger, J.D.
Literary Journey
Correspondence – The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC writing as as J.D. West
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Manuscript – “The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary” – Teleplay by JDC
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Bauer, Douglas
Bender, Aimee
Bender, Karen E.
Calhoun, Kenneth
Fountain, Ben
Gawande, Atul
Glass, Julia
Graver, Elizabeth
Hood, Ann
King, Owen
Kushner, Rachel
LeCraw, Holly
Leone, Marianne
Lethem, Jonathan
Livesey, Margot
Lynn, Allison
Ng, Celeste
Perrotta, Tom
Ryan, David
Shepard, Jim
Shepard, Karen
Treadway, Jessica
van den Berg, Laura
Wilson, Jonathan
Maguire, Gregory
Mirvis, Tova
Newtonville Books
Mona Awad blurb for reissue of We’re So Famous: “We’re So Famous smartly anticipates a culture re-configured by the quest for fame. The starry-eyed girls at the center of this rock-and-roll fairy tale are the predecessors of today’s selfie-snappers. With biting wit and wry humor, Clarke brilliantly reminds us that we’ve always lived for likes.”
Awad, Mona
We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence – Letter from Setti Warren, mayor of Newton, MA, re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Birch, Thora
Zappa, Moon Unit
Lennon, J. Robert
Chapman, Maile
Barthelme, Frederick
Dubus III, Andre
Clarke, Brock
Antopol, Molly
Park, Ed
Bezmozgis, David
Jemc, Jac
Oria, Shelly
Ryan, David
Rich, Nathaniel
Pittard, Hannah
Lehane, Dennis
Hill, Katherine
Redel, Victoria
Shteyngart, Gary
Cheshire, Scott
Salvatore, Joseph
Ng, Celeste
Specktor, Matthew
Wascom, Kent
Vida, Vendela
Weil, Josh
Strauss, Darin
Jones, Alden
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bergin, Josephine
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Brad Watson blurb for Garden Lakes: “Jaime Clarke reminds us that if the banality of evil is indeed a viable truth, its seeds are most likely sewn among adolescent boys.”
Watson, Brad
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Finished copy of The Last Novel Ever Published by JDC, with contributions from Amanda Eyre Ward, Ben Schrank, Nathaniel Rich, Elizabeth Searle, Adam Langer, Heidi Julavits, Victor LaValle, Neil LaBute, Mary-Beth Hughes, Aimee Bender, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Joshua Furst, Ed Park, Samantha Hunt, Roxana Robinson, David Leavitt, Sam Lipsyte, Allison Lynn, and James Scott
Bender, Aimee
Furst, Joshua
Hughes, Mary-Beth
Hunt, Samantha
Julavits, Heidi
Kirshenbaum, Binnie
LaBute, Neil
Langer, Adam
LaValle, Victor
Leavitt, David
Lipsyte, Sam
Lynn, Allison
Park, Ed
Rich, Nathaniel
Robinson, Roxana
Schrank, Ben
Scott, James
Searle, Elizabeth
Ward, Amanda Eyre
The Last Novel Ever Published
Margot Livesey blurb for Garden Lakes: “In the flawlessly imagined Garden Lakes, Jaime Clarke pays homage to Lord of the Flies and creates his own vivid, inadvertently isolated community. As summer tightens its grip, and adult authority recedes, his boys gradually reveal themselves to scary and exhilarating effect. In the hands of this master of suspense and psychological detail, the result is a compulsively readable novel.”
Livesey, Margot
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Manuscript – Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by JDC (formerly Poor Man’s Gatsby)
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Julia Glass blurb for Garden Lakes: “It takes some nerve to revisit a bulletproof classic, but Jaime Clarke does so, with elegance and a cool contemporary eye, in this cunningly crafted homage to Lord of the Flies. He understands all too well the complex psychology of boyhood, how easily the insecurities and power plays slide into mayhem when adults look the other way.”
Glass, Julia
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Manuscript – The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC as J.D. West
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Publishers Marketplace mention of deal for Bloomsbury reissue of We’re So Famous
We're So Famous: A Novel
Boston Book Festival Guide, Oct 14-15, 2016. (+)
Boston Book Festival
Paul Harding blurb for Garden Lakes: “As tense and tight and pitch-perfect as Clarke’s narrative of the harrowing events at Garden Lakes is, and as fine a meditation it is on Golding’s novel, what deepens this book to another level of insight and artfulness is the parallel portrait of Charlie Martens as an adult, years after his fateful role that summer, still tyrannized, paralyzed, tangled in lies, wishing for redemption, maybe fated never to get it. Complicated and feral, Garden Lakes is thrilling, literary, and smart as hell.”
Harding, Paul
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Scott Cheshire blurb for Garden Lakes: “Smart, seductive, and suggestively sinister, Garden Lakes is a disturbingly honest look at how our lies shape our lives and destroy our communities. Read it: Part three in one of the best literary trilogies we have.”
Cheshire, Scott
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Grub Street Muse and the Marketplace conference bulletin ad for Newtonville Books featuring Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Booklist review of Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle: A Memoir
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Fully-executed contract dated Jan 16 with IG Publishing for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by JDC (formerly Poor Man’s Gatsby)
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
New York Times Book Review featuring capsule review of Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Bock, Charles
We're So Famous: A Novel
Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle: A Memoir
Patchett, Ann
Newtonville Books
Cotton, Mary
Misc Adventures
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Literary Hub
Literary Journey
Brooklyn Rail piece by Joseph Salvatore re the Bookmarked series, featuring mention of JDC
Brooklyn Rail
Salvatore, Joseph
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Misc Adventures
Literary Hub
Newtonville Books
Saunders, George
Newtonville Books
Bennington College
Literary Journey
Draft of introduction by Christopher Boucher for More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers by Jonathan Lethem and Christopher Boucher (formerly Overcompensating Autodidact) featuring mention of JDC
Boucher, Christopher
Lethem, Jonathan
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Bloomsbury – Mona Awad blurb for reissue of We’re So Famous:
Bloomsbury – Julia Glass blurb for Garden Lakes:
Bloomsbury – Brad Watson blurb for Garden Lakes:
Bloomsbury – Margot Livesey blurb for Garden Lakes:
Bloomsbury – Scott Cheshire blurb for Garden Lakes:
Bloomsbury – Paul Harding blurb for Garden Lakes:
Finished copy – Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby (formerly What I Wanted to Be + American Kaleidoscope + Poor Man’s Gatsby)
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Bergin, Josephine
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Strand Magazine featuring full page ad for The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC as J.D. West
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Karen E. Bender blurb for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby: “Jaime Clarke’s ode to Gatsby is a completely winning, honest ode to everything: the yearning of an outsider, for success, the drama of the work world, the seduction and darkness of wealth, the search for love and the complex, bumpy life of a writer. The Nick Carraway of Phoenix stakes his own literary territory here; a charming and engaging book.”
Bender, Karen E.
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Tickets and Playbill to A Doll’s House Part 2 on Broadway, starring Chris Cooper, with Mary Cotton.
Cooper, Chris
Cotton, Mary
Misc Adventures
Correspondence – Bloomsbury re story collection Minor Characters based on minor characters from JDC novels, to be written by other authors, and published by Bloomsbury in 2021
Minor Characters: Stories
Manuscript – Vernon Downs screenplay by JDC
Vernon Downs: A Novel
David James Poissant blurb for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby: “Jaime Clarke has penned a smart, funny, beguiling account of his love affair with America’s favorite novel. This book, like its narrator, lives “both inside Fitzgerald’s pages and out,” the best case of literary obsession I’ve had the pleasure of reading since Nicholson Baker’s U & I. A must-read, and not just for Gatsby fans.”
Poissant, David James
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Boston Globe book section with “New England Literary News” by Nina MacLaughlin featuring piece on JDC and David Ryan viz Bookmarked publications; incl copies of listings for Bookmarked events at Sarah Lawrence College and Greenlight bookstore, not attended by JDC; and Ig Publishing notice of publication for Bookmarked editions by JDC and David Ryan.
Ryan, David
MacLaughlin, Nina
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Finished copy – More Alive and Less Lonely by Jonathan Lethem and Christopher Boucher, signed to JDC by JL and CB
Boucher, Christopher
Lethem, Jonathan
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Awad, Mona
Bauer, Douglas
Calhoun, Kenneth
Fountain, Ben
Gawande, Atul
Glass, Julia
Goldstein, Meredith
Hartnett, Annie
Hempel, Amy
Hood, Ann
King, Owen
Leone, Marianne
Lethem, Jonathan
Livesey, Margot
Lodato, Victor
Nadler, Stuart
Perrotta, Tom
Pitlor, Heidi
Scott, James
Searle, Elizabeth
Shepard, Karen
Treadway, Jessica
van den Berg, Laura
Walker, Sarai
Wilson, Jonathan
MacLaughlin, Nina
Messud, Claire
Mirvis, Tova
Newtonville Books
Literary Journey
Manuscript – Screenplay adaptation of The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Boston Herald piece “Novel takes the cake for former Newton resident” re Annie Hartnett reading at Newtonville Books from her novel, Rabbit Cake
Hartnett, Annie
Newtonville Books
Boston Book Festival Guide. Oct 27-28, 2017. (+)
Boston Book Festival
Newtonville Books
Stephen King rider re Sept 28 event with SK and Owen King for Sleeping Beauties at First Baptist Church, hosted by Newtonville Books; incl ticket issued to JDC; incl Newton Police Department invoice for police detail.
King, Owen
King, Stephen
Newtonville Books
Boucher, Christopher
Saunders, George
Newtonville Books
Blurb for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by Karen E. Bender:
Blurb for Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by David James Poissant:
Correspondence – Minor Characters, a collection based on minor characters from JDC novels, featuring original stories 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, with a foreword by Jonathan Lethem, and an introduction by Laura van den Berg, to be published by Bloomsbury in 2021.
Minor Characters: Stories
Manuscript – World Gone Water screenplay
World Gone Water: A Novel
Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Leavitt, David
Newtonville Books
Boucher, Christopher
Newtonville Books
Shelf Awareness email featuring Newtonville Books’s 20th anniversary
Newtonville Books
Correspondence – Radio play adaptation of The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Newtonville Books
Newton Tab 2017 Reader’s Choice Awards featuring Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Bergin, Josephine
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Bergin, Josephine
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Boston Book Festival Guide. Oct 12-13, 2018. (+)
Boston Book Festival
Newtonville Books
Bergin, Josephine
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Bergin, Josephine
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Publishers Weekly article announcing Newtonville Books as a 2018 Pannell Award nominee
Publishers Weekly
Newtonville Books
Bergin, Josephine
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Manuscript – Radio play adaptation of The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery by JDC
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Awad, Mona
Calhoun, Kenneth
Newtonville Books