Minor Characters: Stories
“Minor Characters: Stories” by Jaime Clarke is a collection published by Roundabout Press on April 15, 2021. This edition, comprising 376 pages, explores the often-overlooked minor characters that populate a novel’s landscape. The book brings together Clarke’s previously published short stories featuring supporting characters from his trilogy of novels—Vernon Downs, World Gone Water, and Garden Lakes—alongside contributions from contemporary writers who have crafted stories centered on these characters.
Readers will find a unique blend of narratives that enrich the standalone novels in Clarke’s trilogy. The collection includes original stories from various authors, each adding depth to the minor characters and expanding their roles within the fictional universe. With a foreword by Jonathan Lethem and an introduction by Laura van den berg, this anthology presents a Warholian approach to storytelling, inviting exploration of the intricate relationships between protagonists and their supporting cast.
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A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY SELECTION
All novels are necessarily concerned with their protagonists, but what of the minor characters that fill out a novel’s landscape? We can never know them as well as we should or like. The same is true for the trilogy of novels by Jaime Clarke: Vernon Downs, World Gone Water, and Garden Lakes. MINOR CHARACTERS brings together Clarke’s previously published short stories featuring the supporting characters in his trilogy, as well as stories by some of today’s most talented contemporary writers, who have chosen characters from the trilogy and contributed a story.
With a Foreword by Jonathan Lethem, and an Introduction by Laura van den berg, this Warholian enterprise has produced a unique and stirring collection that both stands on its own and enriches the standalone novels in Clarke’s trilogy. Featuring original stories 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.
“Clarke has done more, even, than Vonnegut in setting his characters free: he’s flipped foreground and background, and at the same time invited others in to browse, and revise, and interfere with, and extend, his fictional who’s who.”–Jonathan Lethem, from his foreword
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