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: Surviving St. Michael’s
• 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’s Famous Food Podcast