Jaime Clarke

{{distinguish|Jamie Clarke (disambiguation){{!}}Jamie Clarke}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Jaime Clarke

| image =

| birth_date =

| birth_place = Kalispell, Montana, U.S.

| occupation = Novelist, editor

| education = Brophy College Preparatory
Arizona State University
University of Arizona
Bennington College (MFA)

| movement = Postmodernism

| website = {{URL|http://www.jaimeclarke.com}}

}}

Jaime Clarke is an American novelist and editor. He is a founding editor of the literary journal Post Road{{sfnp|Post Road staff|2020}} and co-owner, with his wife, of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston.

Early life and education

Clarke was born in Kalispell, Montana, but grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. Out of high school, Clarke worked as a runner for financier Charles Keating.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

He attended Brophy College Preparatory and Arizona State University before graduating with a creative writing degree from the University of Arizona.{{sfnp|Smith|2001}} He also holds an MFA in creative writing from Bennington College.{{cite web |url=http://www.bennington.edu/docs/default-source/docs-writing-seminars/writing-seminars-alumni-booklist.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.bennington.edu |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212224839/http://www.bennington.edu/docs/default-source/docs-writing-seminars/writing-seminars-alumni-booklist.pdf |archive-date=12 February 2015 |url-status=dead}}

Career

After graduating, Clarke moved to New York City, where he worked at the Harold Ober Associates literary agency.{{sfnp|Smith|2001}}

Clarke has taught creative writing at the University of Massachusetts in Boston and Emerson College.

His novels Vernon Downs, World Gone Water, and Garden Lakes are part of his Charlie Martens trilogy and is collected in a limited-edition omnibus published by Roundabout Press to celebrate the story collection Minor Characters, (New York Times New & Noteworthy selection) 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.{{sfnp|Van den Berg|2021}}

Laura van den Berg on Clarke's work wrote, "Jaime Clarke has been one of our foremost chroniclers of obsession since his debut novel, We’re So Famous, appeared in 2001."{{sfnp|Van den Berg|2021}}

He is the author of the Golden Age detective novel, The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery under the pseudonym J.D. West.{{Cite web|title=Jaime Clarke: Author|url=http://jaimeclarke.com/cms/|access-date=2021-07-23|language=en-US}}

Clarke is also the author of the memoir, Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle, which is the basis for his microcast, Typical.{{Cite web |title=Choose Your Own Adventure. Two Books or Two Books in One? - River Teeth Journal |url=https://www.riverteethjournal.com/blog/2023/04/07/choose-your-own-adventure-two-books-or-two-books-in-one |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=www.riverteethjournal.com |language=english}}

Bibliography

=Novels=

{{cite book |title=We're So Famous |publisher=Bloomsbury |year=2001 |isbn=978-0747554226}}
{{cite book |title=Vernon Downs: A Novel |publisher=Roundabout Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0985881221}}
{{cite book |title=World Gone Water: A Novel |publisher=Roundabout Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-0985881283}}
{{cite book |title=Garden Lakes |publisher=Roundabout Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-0985881290}}

=Short fiction=

{{cite magazine |magazine=Atticus Review |title=Carl, Inc.}}
{{cite magazine |magazine=Mississippi Review |title=Lindy}}
{{cite magazine |magazine=AGNI Online |title=The Serial Lover}}
{{cite magazine |magazine=Mississippi Review |title=We're So Famous}}

=Essays and interviews=

{{cite magazine |magazine=Mount Hope Magazine |title=The Bookseller's Art}}
{{cite magazine |magazine=Post Road |title=Desperately Seeking Pacino}}
{{cite magazine |magazine=Publishers Weekly |title=GalleyTalk: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff}}
{{cite magazine |magazine=Mississippi Review |title=Interview with Bret Easton Ellis}}
{{cite magazine |magazine=Ploughshares |title=On Mark Conway}}

=As editor=

{{cite book |editor-first=Jaime |editor-last=Clarke |title=Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes |year=2007 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-1416934448}}
{{cite book |editor1-first=Jaime |editor1-last=Clarke |title=No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine |year=2011 |publisher=Dzanc Books |editor2-first=Mary |editor2-last=Cotton |isbn=978-0982631843}}
{{cite book |last=Lethem |first=Jonathan |editor-first=Jaime |editor-last=Clarke |title=Conversations with Jonathan Lethem |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |year=2011 |isbn=978-1604739725}}
{{cite book |title=Boston Noir 2: The Classics |publisher=Akashic Books |year=2012 |editor1-first=Dennis |editor1-last=Lehane |editor2-first=Mary |editor2-last=Cotton |editor3-first=Jaime |editor3-last=Clarke |isbn=978-1617751363}}
{{cite book |editor-last=Clarke |editor-first=Jaime |year=2013 |title=Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers |publisher=PFP Publishing |isbn=978-0989237239}}

=Non-fiction=

{{cite book |year=2017 |title=F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby: Bookmarked |publisher=Ig Publishing, Incorporated |isbn=978-1632460394}}
Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle. Roundabout Press, 2022. ISBN 978-1948072083

References

=Citations=

=Works cited=

{{cite web |title=Masthead |url=https://www.postroadmag.com/masthead/ |access-date=2021-07-23 |website=Post Road |year=2020 |author=Post Road staff}}
{{cite web |url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2001-06-14/music/almost-famous/ |title=Almost Famous |first=Brian |last=Smith |date=June 14, 2001 |website=Phoenix New Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130811072619/https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2001-06-14/music/almost-famous/ |archive-date=2013-08-11 |url-status=dead}}
{{Cite web |last=Van den Berg |first=Laura |date=April 2021 |title=The Chronicler of Obsession: Jaime Clarke's Minor Characters |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2021/04/books/The-Chronicler-of-Obsession|access-date=2021-07-23 |website=The Brooklyn Rail}}