The Best Audio Storytelling: 2022

by Julia Barton (Editor), David Sedaris Narrated by Julia Barton, David Sedaris

Overview

Finally an annual collection of the best nonfiction audio stories pulled from podcasts, radio, and audiobooks, featuring a foreword by bestselling author, and audio fan, David Sedaris.

The Best Audio Storytelling is a new collection of thirteen of the year's best nonfiction audio stories from podcasters, radio journalists, authors, independent creators, and more.

The stories within this anthology transport you to a lush garden, to life in prison, to a cruise ship bar, and even into outer space. Curated by Pushkin Industries Executive Editor Julia Barton, a longtime editor of podcasts and radio, with a foreword by lifelong audio junkie David Sedaris, The Best Audio Storytelling is a celebration of the most innovative and powerful audio storytelling of the year.

This year's collection includes pieces from: 

• Author Jason Reynolds
• KCRW Radio Race "Newbie" Award winner: Ezra and Eve Austin (aka "Mass of Kugel")
• Investigative podcast Will Be Wild
• Critically-acclaimed investigative podcast Stolen
• History podcast One Year: 1986
• NPR's Morning Edition
• Science podcast Terrestrials
• Actor Lake Bell
• Planet Money
• Rumble Strip
• The New York Times
• Award-winning podcast Ear Hustle
• Richard Parks III

Editorial Reviews

July 2023 - AudioFile

This collection of the best audiobook storytelling, reporting, and commentary catches the zeitgeist of 2022's events and issues. Humorist David Sedaris opens with what he likes about audio, and his introduction is funny. Other standouts include a report from Ukraine that ran on NPR's "Morning Edition." Memories of what life was like behind bars in the podcast "Ear Hustle" are made even more heartbreaking and insightful through an intimate conversation between friends. Introductions delivered by Julia Barton perfectly set up the stories that follow. R.O. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

AudioFile - JULY 2023

This collection of the best audiobook storytelling, reporting, and commentary catches the zeitgeist of 2022's events and issues. Humorist David Sedaris opens with what he likes about audio, and his introduction is funny. Other standouts include a report from Ukraine that ran on NPR's "Morning Edition." Memories of what life was like behind bars in the podcast "Ear Hustle" are made even more heartbreaking and insightful through an intimate conversation between friends. Introductions delivered by Julia Barton perfectly set up the stories that follow. R.O. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940178224427
Publisher:	Pushkin Industries
Publication date:	04/18/2023
Edition description:	Unabridged

Videos