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(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.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
Correspondence with Webster Younce re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Bennington College
Literary Journey
Correspondence re engagement to Mary Cotton
Cotton, Mary
Correspondence with Panio Gianopoulos re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
New York Newsday article entitled “Critical Mass” featuring quote from JDC
Publishers Weekly
We're So Famous: A Novel
Correspondence with James Schiff at Time Warner Books re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Manuscript – proposal for an oral history of the films of John Hughes; includes declining letter from Ryan Harbage at Simon & Schuster
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Correspondence with Coates Bateman re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
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.)
Hobart Magazine
Boudinot, Ryan
Literary Journey
Correspondence with Elizabeth Sheinkman re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange re closing Post Road’s NYC address at 853 Broadway in favor of POB 400951 in Cambridge, MA
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Lizard Watch, newsletter of Newtonville Books, announcing release of Post Road 7
Post Road Magazine
Correspondence with various editors re auction of JDC memoir O What Fun We’ll Have! O the Times!
Literary Journey
Poor Man's Gatsby: A Memoir
Post Road Magazine – Email from Sean Dessureau re postroadmag.com being a finalist for the 2004 Web Awards at South by Southwest
Post Road Magazine
Correspondence with New York agents re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Boudinot, Ryan
Hobart Magazine
Literary Journey
Post Road Magazine – Email to editors re Ricco Siasoco leaving Post Road as web editor
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Ingram Periodicals re Post Road distribution
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Grub Street re Post Road and GS partnering for a fiction prize
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email to Alden Jones and Josephine Bergin re the history of the Etcetera Section
Jones, Alden
Bergin, Josephine
Post Road Magazine
Correspondence with Hollywood agents re We’re So Famous screenplay
We're So Famous: A Novel
We're So Famous: A Novel
Post Road Magazine – Lizard Watch, newsletter of Newtonville Books, announcing the publication of Post Road 8
Post Road Magazine
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
Cotton, Mary
Post Road Magazine
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
Cotton, Mary
Post Road Magazine
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
Jones, Alden
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Hignell re the dissolution of Post Road’s relationship with Hignell after Post Road 8.
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Devon Sprague re joining Post Road as a Recommendations editor
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange re having Google AdSense on Post Road website
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with fiction and poetry editors re management of the Post Road slushpile
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email from Heather Fisher re copyediting Post Road
Fisher, Heather
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email from Mary Cotton to Post Road editors re the contents of Post Road 9
Cotton, Mary
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Edwards Brothers printers re printing Post Road
Post Road Magazine
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
The Mississippi Review
Schappell, Elissa
Hughes, Brigid
Wolff, Rebecca
Yas, Joanna
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Pro Bono invoiced from Testa, Hurwitz, and Thibeault re Post Road
Post Road Magazine
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
Bergin, Josephine
Post Road Magazine
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
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Victoria Clausi re Post Road at the MFA program’s 10th anniversary residency
Post Road Magazine
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.
Cotton, Mary
Breen, Susan
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email to editors re IRS’s approval of Post Road’s nonprofit status; incl email exchange with Testa, Hurwitz, and Thibeault.
Post Road Magazine
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
McLeod, Eric Tyrone
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Email exchange with Testa, Hurwitz, and Thibeault re trademarking Post Road
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Copy of IRS letter granting Post Road nonprofit status
Post Road Magazine
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.
Post Road Magazine
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
Cotton, Mary
Post Road Magazine
Rector, Liam
Post Road Magazine
June: Alden, NY
O the Places I've Lived!
Bananarama interview with Attitude Magazine with JDC mention
We're So Famous: A Novel
Ellis, Bret Easton
Publishers Weekly
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Literary Journey
Invitation to book party for Misfortune: A Novel by Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding)
Stace, Wesley (aka John Wesley Harding)
Bennington College
Manuscript – Vernon Downs – novel, pgs 1-130. First draft. Annotated by Mary Cotton.
Cotton, Mary
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Cotton, Mary
Post Road Magazine
Correspondence with Richard Eoin Nash at Softskull Press re A Complete Gentleman. (Published in 2015 as World Gone Water.)
World Gone Water: A Novel
Ellis, Bret Easton
Newtonville Books
Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis, Bret Easton
Misc Adventures
Cotton, Mary
Bennington College
Post Road Magazine
Itinerary and directions for Clarke/Cotton honeymoon through Canada to Nova Scotia, July 25-Aug 4
Cotton, Mary
Correspondence – Tom Perrotta re Best American Short Stories
Perrotta, Tom
Post Road Magazine
Misc Adventures
Manuscript – “The Oswald Sightings” – Short story. Handwritten draft, pages 1-41. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Literary Journey
Article from Gawker.com re Vernon Downs titled “Bret Easton Ellis: When Does Stalking Become Art?” dated May 17, 2005 (+)
Ellis, Bret Easton
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Correspondence – Kelly Thomas at Mockingbird Pictures re We’re So Famous
Spicer, Nick
We're So Famous: A Novel
Ellis, Bret Easton
2006 Novel and Short Story Writers Market featuring interview with JDC and Mary Cotton for article titled “The Lowdown on Low-Residency MFA Programs.”
Cotton, Mary
Literary Journey
Various correspondence re untitled John Hughes anthology – Simon & Schuster
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Correspondence – Karen Braziller at Persea Books re Garden Lakes
Braziller, Karen
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Declining letter from A Public Space re Vernon Downs (novella)
Vernon Downs: A Novel
JDC contract with Emerson College dated 12.01.05 re teaching Advanced Fiction (WP311E) and Advanced Personal Essay (WP316), Spring 2006
Emerson College
Correspondence with Tamar Brazis at Abrams Books re Garden Lakes
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Vox Pop generated uncorrected galley of Vernon Downs by JDC (+)
Vernon Downs: A Novel
Literary Journey
Correspondence with Constance McCashin re We’re So Famous screenplay
We're So Famous: A Novel
Bennington College
JDC contract with Emerson College dated 07.01.05 to teach Intro to Fiction, Fall 2005
Emerson College
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Wylie Agency re “Twenty Questions with David Mamet“; incl copy of Mar 28 contract
Mamet, David
Post Road Magazine
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
Post Road Magazine
University of Arizona
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Victoria Clausi and Liam Rector re various Post Road listings in Bennington MFA program newsletters
Rector, Liam
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with JT Leroy re a recommendation for Post Road
Post Road Magazine
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
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re adding Lissa Warren and Nicolette Nicola as poetry editors
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – JDC email exchange with Kathy Lasker re quote for printing Post Road on demand
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – JDC email exchange with Ingram Periodicals re creating Post Road Books
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Steven Cramer at Lesley University re a partnership with Post Road
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re finding a new copyeditor
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence re trademarking Post Road
Post Road Magazine
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.
KGB Bar
Post Road Magazine
KGB Bar
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
Birkerts, Sven
Hempel, Amy
Post Road Magazine
Post Road Magazine – Correspondence with Middlesex Lounge re Post Road reading series
Post Road Magazine
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.
Cotton, Mary
Pollack, Neal
Post Road Magazine
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
McLeod, Eric Tyrone
Post Road Magazine
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
Post Road Magazine
University of Arizona
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
Post Road Magazine