Jaime Clarke
Jaime Clarke | |
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| Born | April 15, 1971 Kalispell, Montana |
| Occupation | Novelist, editor |
| Genre | Fiction and Non-fiction |
| Literary movement | Postmodernism |
| Website | |
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Jaime Clarke (born 1971) is an American novelist and editor. He is a founding editor of the literary journal Post Road Magazine[1] and co-owner, with his wife, of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston.
Biography[]
Clarke was born in Kalispell, MT, but grew up in Phoenix, AZ, attending Brophy College Preparatory and Arizona State University before graduating with a creative writing degree from the University of Arizona.[2] He also holds an MFA in creative writing from Bennington College.[3]
Out of high school, Clarke worked as a runner for financier Charles Keating. He then earned degrees at the University of Arizona and Bennington College before moving to New York City, where he worked at the Harold Ober Associates literary agency.[2]
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.[4][5]
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."[5]
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.[6]
Bibliography[]
Novels [3]
- We’re So Famous, Bloomsbury USA, 2001. Re-issued by Bloomsbury in 2016, with an introduction by Charles Bock.
- Vernon Downs, Roundabout Press, 2014. Republished by Bloomsbury in 2015
- World Gone Water, Bloomsbury, 2015
- Garden Lakes, Bloomsbury, 2016
Short fiction
- AGNI Online: “The Serial Lover”
- Atticus Review: “Carl, Inc.”
- Mississippi Review: "We're So Famous"
- Mississippi Review: “Lindy"
Essays and interviews
- Publishers Weekly: "GalleyTalk: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff"
- Atticus Books Online: "Newtonville Books: An Indie Determined to Succeed"
- Huffington Post: "The Writing on the Wall for Independents"
- Ploughshares: "On Mark Conway"
- Mount Hope Magazine: "The Bookseller’s Art"
- Mississippi Review: "Interview with Bret Easton Ellis"
- Post Road Magazine: “Desperately Seeking Pacino”
As editor[3]
- Don’t You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, Simon & Schuster, 2007
- Conversations with Jonathan Lethem, University Press of Mississippi, 2011
- No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine, Dzanc, 2011 (with Mary Cotton)
- Boston Noir 2: The Classics, Akashic, 2012 (with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton)
- Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers, PFP Publishing, 2013
Memoir
- Bookmarked: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Ig Publishing, 2017
References[]
- ^ "About". Post Road Magazine. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Brian Smith (August 25, 2006). "Almost Famous". phoenixnewtimes.com.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c [1]
- ^ Noble, Barnes &. "Vernon Downs/World Gone Water/Garden Lakes: The Complete Charlie Martens Trilogy|Paperback". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Berg, Laura van den (April 6, 2021). "The Chronicler of Obsession: Jaime Clarke's Minor Characters". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
- ^ "Jaime Clarke: Author". Retrieved July 23, 2021.
External links[]
- Vernon Downs, Boston Globe.
- Jaime Clarke – The Brooklyn Rail.
- The Rules of Obsession – The Brooklyn Rail
- Author doesn’t want you to buy his book on Amazon” by Emily Keeler, Sept 30, 2013, Los Angeles Times
- “Why I Quit Being a Writer” by Jaime Clarke, The Literary Hub, May 11, 2016
- Writers from Montana
- University of Arizona alumni
- Living people
- 1971 births
- American male novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- People from Kalispell, Montana
- Writers from Phoenix, Arizona
- Arizona State University alumni
- Bennington College alumni
- University of Massachusetts Boston faculty
- Emerson College faculty
- 21st-century American male writers
- Novelists from Massachusetts
- Novelists from Arizona