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Jaime Clarke

Jaime Clarke
Jaime Clarke is the author of the novels We're So Famous, Vernon Downs, World Gone Water, and Garden Lakes; the editor of the anthologies Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, Conversations with Jonathan Lethem, and Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers. 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.


Why I Quit Being a Writer

Jaime Clarke on Saying Goodbye to the Writing Life
May 11, 2016  By Jaime Clarke
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