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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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

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

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Correspondence – Various Benningtonites re Vernon Downs

2006

JDC Authors Guild Info Packet

2006

Correspondence – Post Road/Lesley/LVF merger

2006

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

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

2006

Impetus Press page layout for Vernon Downs with JDC correx

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Correspondence – Impetus Press re Garden Lakes

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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

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Manuscript – JDC handwritten introduction to Vernon Downs

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

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Contracts between JDC and contributors for John Hughes anthology

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Copyedited version of Vernon Downs, bound

2006

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

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Various correspondence re John Hughes anthology – Vol III

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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.

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Correspondence with Mike Jones at Bloomsbury UK re Vernon Downs

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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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Impetus page proofs for Vernon Downs

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JDC generated key for 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

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Impetus catalogue copy for Vernon Downs

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

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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

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

2006

Correspondence re potential purchase of Newtonville Books

2006
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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

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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

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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

Correspondence – Amy Hempel

2000

Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Robert Bookman at Creative Artists Agency re the film rights to We’re So Famous

2000

Bloomsbury – edited manuscript for We’re So Famous; incl May 1, 2000 letter from Panio Gianopolous.

2000

Bloomsbury – Hartford Courant piece entitled “What’s to Love: Writers Pick Their Favorites” featuring We’re So Famous recommendation by Frederick Barthelme

2000

Correspondence – Askold Melnyczuk

2000
2000

Correspondence – Maria Flook

2000

Correspondence – Bob Shacochis

2000

Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Joel Gotler at Artists Management Group re the film rights to We’re So Famous

2000

Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Brian Lipson at Endeavor LA re the film rights to We’re So Famous

2000

Correspondence – Mary Robison

2000

Correspondence – Charles Bock

2000

Shout Magazine – November 2000 issue featuring Part Two of serialization of “Cheshires” by JDC. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

2000

Shout Magazine – October 2000 issue featuring Part One of serialization of “Cheshires” by JDC. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)

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Correspondence with Jordan Heller at Shout Magazine; includes contracts for articles and copies of receipts for payment.

2000

Correspondence – Karen Braziller at Persea Books

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Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis

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2000

Galleys from Xlibris for self-published novel A Complete Gentleman. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)

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Post Road Magazine – Email to editors re form wording for soliciting work and recommendations

2000

Bloomsbury – We’re So Famous – Correspondence re college reading tour with Fuzzy

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2000

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence relating to the production of Post Road 1, including corr with editors about the collection of material

2000

Letter from Bettina Schrewe Literary Scouting agency about Bret Easton Ellis oral biography

2000

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re the release parties for Post Road 1: Fri, Step 15 at Dibrova Social Club in NYC and Sat, Sept 16 at The Joshua Tree in Boston; incl press release about the parties

2000

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re Post Road website

2000

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re instituting a slush pile

2000

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re advertising in Post Road, incl corr with other literary magazines about swapping ads

2000
2000

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re the Potpourri section, renamed the Etcetera Section with JDC as editor

2000

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re not having book reviews in Post Road

2000

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re how to collect material from editors

2000
2000

Post Road Magazine – Email asking editors to come to the print shop to help assemble Post Road 1

2000
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Post Road Magazine contract template

2000
2000

Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re a policy against publishing friends, Benningtonites, etc.

2000
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Correspondence – Jamie Clarke; incl CD for band Perfect

2001
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Drawing of JDC from Hollywood Wax Museum

2001
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Correspondence – Knox Burger

2001
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Postcard from Harold Ober Associates acknowledging receipt of Scavengers

2001
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Bret Easton Ellis blurb for We're So Famous: “Jaime Clarke pulls off a sympathetic act of sustained male imagination: entering the minds of innocent teenage girls dreaming of fame. A glibly surreal world where the only thing wanted is notoriety and all you really desire leads to celebrity and where stardom is the only point of reference. What’s new about this novel is how unconsciously casual the characters’ drives are. This lust is as natural to them as being American-it’s almost a birthright.”

2001

Jonathan Ames blurb for We're So Famous: “Darkly and pinkly comic, this is the story of a trio of teenage American girls and their pursuit of the three big Ms of American life: Music, Movies and Murder. An impressive debut by a talented young novelist.”

2001

Bob Shacochis blurb for We're So Famous: “Jaime Clarke is a masterful illusionist; in his deft hands, emptiness seems full, teenage pathos appears sassy and charming. We’re So Famous is a blithe, highly entertaining indictment of the permanent state of adolescence that trademarks our culture, a made-for-TV world where innocence is hardly a virtue, ambition barely a value system.”

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Bloomsbury – Village Voice listing for We’re So Famous reading at Astor Place Barnes & Noble, April 11, 2001.

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Bloomsbury – Nzoom.com review of We’re So Famous

2001
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Bloomsbury – Postcard from Mary Robison re We’re So Famous

2001

Bloomsbury – Brophy College Preparatory alumni magazine, August 2001, includes announcement of We’re So Famous royalty donation to Literary Volunteers of Maricopa County.

2001

Bloomsbury – Letter from Amy Hempel re We’re So Famous

2001

Bloomsbury – Brophy College Preparatory alumni magazine, January 2001, includes announcement of publication of We’re So Famous.

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Bloomsbury – Kirkus review of We’re So Famous

2001

Bloomsbury – Correspondence with Leslie Epstein re Publishers Weekly and We’re So Famous

2001
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Bloomsbury – New York Times Book Review capsule review of We’re So Famous

2001

Bloomsbury – Publishers Weekly review of We’re So Famous

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