Daybook at Sheep Meadow

In his newest novel, cult author Peter Dimock explores the shuttering of empire and literature’s capacity to re-lay America’s political trajectory.

Peter Dimock has long worked in publishing, both at Random House and as senior executive editor for history and political science at Columbia University Press, where he worked with authors including Angela Davis, Eric Hobsbawm, Toni Morrison, and Amartya Sen. His novels A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family and George Anderson: Notes for A Love Song in Imperial Time were published by Dalkey Archive Press.