The Best American Short Stories 2019
Written by Anthony Doerr and Heidi Pitlor
Narrated by Heidi Pitlor, Robert Petkoff, Scott Shepherd and
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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
Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelAll the Light We Cannot See. He is also the author of two story collections, Memory Wall and The Shell Collector; the novel About Grace; and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. 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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Reviews for The Best American Short Stories 2019
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I was surprised by how many of these stories I didn't like. Mostly they seemed inert. Predictable. Overly familiar. Varied by still very much of a type. I liked "Audition" and "Letter of Apology," "Omokase," and "They Told Us Not to Say This," but even ones that seemed promising didn't go anywhere effective.