#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