Bookish Love is a promising new site offering in-depth reviews of local literary events. From their recap of the Unterberg Poetry Center’s evening with novelists Mary Gaitskill and Edna O’Brien:

O’Brien commented that she liked the word “generous.” Then, she said it would be much easier to write with just kids than it was to write with a husband. She told an anecdote of her children slipping her notes under the door to her writing room when she was trying to get work done. The notes said drastic things like “We’re sick.” Gaitskill commented that, based on this story, she liked O’Brien’s kids. Then, she tried to explain that writing did make her sacrifice, but that her husband had also been a good support in her work. Furthermore, she said, writing is solitary, but it is life, too. Finding words and making life of them is inseparable from reality as we are living it. It is a part of it.

Tonight on the literary front: A Tribute to Marie Ponsot. Coming up: Gore Vidal.

[Unterberg Poetry Center Reading Series]