Poets & Writers Theater

The debut author, who is interviewed by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding as part of "First Fiction 2013" in the current issue, talks about her first novel, We Need New Names, which was published in May by Reagan Arthur Books. Read an excerpt from the novel in our 2013 First Fiction Sampler.

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? That is the tantalizing premise of Kate Atkinson's latest novel, Life After Life, published this month by Reagan Arthur Books. The novel has already been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, better known by its previous name, the Orange Prize.

In Eowyn Ivey's debut novel, set in Alaska in 1920, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl on their snowy doorstep.