The Best American Short Stories 2019, Anthony Doerr
The Best American Short Stories 2019, Anthony Doerr
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The Best American Short Stories 2019

Author: Anthony Doerr, Heidi Pitlor

Narrator: 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

Unabridged: 16 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/01/2019

Synopsis

#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. FreeGabra ZackmanScott ShepherdSullivan JonesChristine LakinBrittany PressleyZach VillaSaskia MaarleveldAli AhnRobin MilesRoxana OrtegaWilson BethelRobert PetkoffJefferson MaysDariush KashaniMegan TusingChristopher Ryan GrantTherese PlummerCriena HouseEmily Woo Zeller

About Anthony Doerr

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.

About 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn on October 09, 2020

I've always loved the Best American Short Stories series, but I've only reviewed one of the volumes on here. It's about time I reviewed another. As I wrote in the earlier review, what I like most about these collections is discovering new authors. That was definitely true this year. Of the 20 authors......more

Goodreads review by Chris on March 03, 2020

On loan from a friend. I've rescued a bunch of these already, but this might be the first I'll have read. One tale per day ... 1 - The Era by Nana Kwame Adej-Brenyah. Very derivative of "Brave New World," but still quite arresting. Beware of the future! 2 - Natural Light by Kathleen Alcott. I'll leave......more

Goodreads review by Emma Deplores Goodreads Censorship on February 14, 2024

This is my first year reading the Best American Short Stories, after having gotten more into short stories over the last few years. I am not a fan of multi-author anthologies, finding them impossible to “get into” when each new story is like starting a new book, and that’s particularly true here, wh......more

Goodreads review by Christine on September 23, 2021

Since this is a collection of 20 stories, it's a bit challenging to think of how to review it. Here's a general overview. In 2019, a friend actually turned me on to this series of anthologies commonly referred to as BASS. I guess it's been out since the early 1900's and they started the "guest editor......more

Goodreads review by Andy on December 01, 2019

There are many reasons I look forward to the annual collection of Best American Short Stories; it helps keep me out of reading ruts of reading the same type of fiction, it introduces me to new writers causing me to order their books(but never on Amazon), updates me on favorite writers. It also remin......more

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