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The Best American Short Stories 2019

#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


Authors:

  • Anthony Doerr
  • Heidi Pitlor

Narrators:

  • Robert Petkoff
  • Heidi Pitlor
  • Scott Shepherd
  • Gabra Zackman
  • Kevin R. Free
  • Sullivan Jones
  • Christine Lakin
  • Brittany Pressley
  • Zach Villa
  • Saskia Maarleveld
  • Ali Ahn
  • Robin Miles
  • Roxana Ortega
  • Wilson Bethel
  • Jefferson Mays
  • Dariush Kashani
  • Megan Tusing
  • Christopher Ryan Grant
  • Therese Plummer
  • Criena House

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 16 h 8 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Essays and reportage
  • Essays
  • Essays and reportage
  • Anthologies

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  • 25 books

    Anthony Doerr

    Anthony Doerr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. He is also the author of two story collections, and ; the novel ; and the memoir . He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.

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  • 5 books

    Heidi Pitlor

    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.

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