How do you choose your very best work if your work is as good as David Sederis'?

David will be here to talk about his latest collection, The Best of Me.

Alexander Altar will have an update from the publishing world, plus our critics will

join us for the latest in literary criticism.

This is the Book Review Podcast from the New York Times.

Next December 4th, I'm Pamela Paul.

David Sederis joins us now from New York to talk about his new collection, The Best

of Me.

David, so happy to have you back on the podcast.

Oh, thanks, Pamela.

So why this book now?

We should say this is a collection of your best work.

Why did you decide to do this?

Well originally, I was going to just do an audiobook.

And I had discussed it with my Atomas, who has always been my audiobook producer.

Just because I get a lot of audiobooks and I listen to a lot of audiobooks, if I have

two choices and one audiobook is like four hours long and the other one is like 35 hours

long, I usually go with the 35 hour.

And I think most of my audiobooks are pretty short.

So I thought, oh, well why don't I just do whatever I consider to be in the best work and

we'll put it together.

And so it'll be a longer audiobook.

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