The Best Audio Storytelling: 2022

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