What's for Dinner?

when represented in fiction (and especially poignantly in the poet’s confessional novel), becomes, at its most optimistic, the scenario of which What’s for Dinner? is a keen example. “Their neurotic sufferings ameliorated, they lived ordinarily unhappily ever after.” Ought to be enough for anybody.
—JAMES McCOURT

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Copyright © 1978 by James Schuyler
Afterword copyright © 2006 by James McCourt
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First published by Black Sparrow Press, 1978
Cover painting: Darragh Park
Cover design: Katy Homans
The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:
Schuyler, James.
 What’s for dinner? / by James Schuyler; afterword by James McCourt.
p. cm.—(New York Review Books classics)
 ISBN 1-59017-167-5 (alk. paper)
 I. McCourt, James, 1941- II. Title. III. Series.
 PS3569.C56W47 2005
 811’.54—dc22
2005013037
eISBN 978-1-59017-435-7
v1.0
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