Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke is the author of three previous books: The Ordinary White Boy and two story collections. His stories and essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, OneStory, the Believer, the Georgia Review, and the Southern Review and have appeared in the annual Pushcart Prize and New Stories from the South anthologies and on NPR's Selected Shorts. He lives in Portland, Maine, and teaches creative writing at Bowdoin College.

Novels

   The Ordinary White Boy (2001)
   An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England (2007)
   Exley (2010)
   The Happiest People in the World (2014)
   I Am Calvin Bledsoe (2019)
   Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? (2019)

Collections

   What We Won't Do (2002)
   Carrying the Torch (2005)
   The Price of the Haircut (2018)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Slim Jim (2017)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Brock Clarke

Astoria to Zion (2014)
Twenty-six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade

The Alumni Grill: Volume 2 (2005)
edited by
Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin

Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe III (2004)
(Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe, book 3)
edited by
Sonny Brewer

More books

Brock Clarke recommends

Landslide (2021)
Susan Conley
"Life in Susan Conley's wondrous new novel Landslide is full of a nagging sense that the past was better than the future could ever be. But it's full of sweetness, and hope, too. A funny, fond, and rueful take on what life on the Maine coast is like after the tourists leave, Landslide will stick with you, and leave you rooting for the flawed family at its heart, even when they sometimes find it hard to root for each other. An unforgettable book."

You Want More (2020)
George Singleton
"George Singleton is one of the funniest writers in America. He's also the writer most attuned to the American freakshow?its hilarity, its hopes, its heartbreak. His fiction has mattered, a lot, for as long as he's been writing it, but it's never mattered more than now. You Want More is a major book from a major writer."

Enter the Aardvark (2020)
Jessica Anthony
"I've been waiting a long time for a book like Jessica Anthony's Enter the Aardvark, a book that not only manages to bridge supposedly unbridgeable divides in politics, in time, in geography, in love and sex, but also manages to do so by way of a time-traveling taxidermied aardvark. If that sounds unlikely, well, yes, exactly, that's why I've been waiting for so long for it?this unlikely, hilarious, moving, ingenious book. Enter the Aardvark is an absolute original."

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