The Best American Short Stories 2019
About this audiobook
#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
Read by a full cast including:
Kevin R. Free
Gabra Zackman
Scott Shepherd
Sullivan Jones
Christine Lakin
Brittany Pressley
Zach Villa
Saskia Maarleveld
Ali Ahn
Robin Miles
Roxana Ortega
Wilson Bethel
Robert Petkoff
Jefferson Mays
Dariush Kashani
Megan Tusing
Christopher Ryan Grant
Therese Plummer
Criena House
Emily Woo Zeller
Ratings and reviews
About the author
ANTHONY DOERR is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. He is also the author of the two story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won four O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.
Heidi Pitlor is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been the series editor for The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays, The Daylight Marriage, and Impersonation.
