Jaime Clarke

Not to be confused with Jamie Clarke.

Jaime Clarke
Born	Kalispell, Montana, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist, editor
Education	Brophy College Preparatory Arizona State University University of Arizona Bennington College (MFA)
Literary movement	Postmodernism
Website
www.jaimeclarke.com

Jaime Clarke is an American novelist and editor. He is a founding editor of the literary journal Post Road 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.

He attended Brophy College Preparatory and Arizona State University before graduating with a creative writing degree from the University of Arizona. He also holds an MFA in creative writing from Bennington College.

Career

After graduating, Clarke moved to New York City, where he worked at the Harold Ober Associates literary agency.

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.

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."

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.

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.

Bibliography

Novels

• We're So Famous. Bloomsbury. 2001. ISBN 978-0747554226.
• Vernon Downs: A Novel. Roundabout Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0985881221.
• World Gone Water: A Novel. Roundabout Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0985881283.
• Garden Lakes. Roundabout Press. 2016. ISBN 978-0985881290.

Short fiction

• "Carl, Inc". Atticus Review.
• "Lindy". Mississippi Review.
• "The Serial Lover". AGNI Online.
• "We're So Famous". Mississippi Review.

Essays and interviews

• "The Bookseller's Art". Mount Hope Magazine.
• "Desperately Seeking Pacino". Post Road.
• "GalleyTalk: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff". Publishers Weekly.
• "Interview with Bret Easton Ellis". Mississippi Review.
• "On Mark Conway". Ploughshares.

As editor

• Clarke, Jaime, ed. (2007). Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1416934448.
• Clarke, Jaime; Cotton, Mary, eds. (2011). No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine. Dzanc Books. ISBN 978-0982631843.
• Lethem, Jonathan (2011). Clarke, Jaime (ed.). Conversations with Jonathan Lethem. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1604739725.
• Lehane, Dennis; Cotton, Mary; Clarke, Jaime, eds. (2012). Boston Noir 2: The Classics. Akashic Books. ISBN 978-1617751363.
• Clarke, Jaime, ed. (2013). Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers. PFP Publishing. ISBN 978-0989237239.

Non-fiction

• F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby: Bookmarked. Ig Publishing, Incorporated. 2017. ISBN 978-1632460394.
• Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle. Roundabout Press, 2022. ISBN 978-1948072083

References

Works cited

• Post Road staff (2020). "Masthead". Post Road. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
• Smith, Brian (June 14, 2001). "Almost Famous". Phoenix New Times. Archived from the original on August 11, 2013.
• Van den Berg, Laura (April 2021). "The Chronicler of Obsession: Jaime Clarke's Minor Characters". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved July 23, 2021.

Further reading

• Clarke, Jaime (April 2015). "Jaime Clarke in Conversation with David Bezmozgis, Maud Casey, Ramona Ausubel, Hannah Pittard, Rebecca Makkai, Charles Bock, Brock Clarke, David James Poissant, and Lydia Millet". The Brooklyn Rail.
• Clarke, Jaime (May 11, 2016). "Why I Quit Being a Writer: Jaime Clarke on Saying Goodbye to the Writing Life". The Literary Hub.
• Cutter, Weston (April 2014). "The Rules of Obsession". The Brooklyn Rail.
• Keeler, Emily (September 30, 2013). "Author doesn't want you to buy his book on Amazon". Los Angeles Times.

External links

• Official website