A. N. Devers' Top 5 Bathtub Longreads of 2011
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Devers‘ work has appeared online in Lapham’s Quarterly, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and in other publications.
德弗斯的作品曾在线发表在《拉帕姆季刊》、《纽约客》、《巴黎评论》和其他出版物上。
Her most recent essay, about poet Robinson Jeffers’ Tor House in Carmel, California, is in the Winter 2011 issue of Tin House.
她最近发表的一篇关于诗人罗宾逊·杰弗斯 (Robinson Jeffers) 在加利福尼亚州卡梅尔的托屋 (Tor House) 的文章发表在《Tin House》 2011 年冬季号上。
She is the founder and editor of Writers’ Houses, a website dedicated to literary pilgrimage.
她是作家之家的创始人和编辑，这是一个致力于文学朝圣的网站。
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Maghag (n.): 1.
马哈格 (n.): 1.
A compulsive reader and hoarder of periodicals and magazines to a magnitude that endangers the well-being of the hag’s housekeeping ability, family relationships, and punctuality.
一个强迫性的读者和期刊杂志的囤积者，其严重程度危及女巫的持家能力、家庭关系和准时性。
Identified by a pruney skin that develops from spending an inordinate amount of time in the bathtub 2.
因在浴缸中呆得太久而形成的梅子皮2。
Writer and procrastinator known as A.
作家和拖延症患者，被称为 A.
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Devers.
德弗斯。
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I always go for Scientology exposes.
我总是支持山达基教的揭露。
I’m cheap that way.
这样我就很便宜了。
“The Apostate” by Lawrence Wright for The New Yorker, with its heroic fact-checking effort, is so Xenu-shattering that it inspired a rebuttal from the Church of Scientology in the form of a poor-executed satire of The New Yorker.
劳伦斯·赖特（Lawrence Wright）为《纽约客》撰写的《叛教者》，其英勇的事实核查努力，是如此令人震惊，以至于引发了山达基教会以对《纽约客》进行拙劣讽刺的形式进行反驳。
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My fandom of Paul Collins goes back a ways.
我对保罗·柯林斯的喜爱可以追溯到很久以前。
His work exposes my periodical-weeding inability.
他的工作暴露了我在期刊除草方面的无能。
If you came over to my apartment and demanded some Paul Collins, I’d be able to run to dusty stacks and the file cabinet and deliver a dozen essays of awesome.
如果你来到我的公寓，想要一些保罗·柯林斯的书，我就能跑到布满灰尘的书架和文件柜前，发表十几篇精彩的文章。
So I’m not surprised that his piece about the disappearance of child-writer Barbara Follett in the Lapham’s Quarterly Celebrity issue is perfectly constructed story of intrigue and wonderment, mystery and disturbia.
因此，他在《拉帕姆名人季刊》上发表的关于儿童作家芭芭拉·福莱特失踪的文章完美地构建了阴谋与惊奇、神秘与不安的故事，我对此并不感到惊讶。
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Anything I can say about Hungarian industrial designer and ceramicist Eva Zeisel’s Prison Memoir (A Public Space, issue 14) of being arrested in Stalinist Russia doesn’t do her charm and intellect justice.
关于匈牙利工业设计师兼陶艺家 Eva Zeisel 在斯大林主义俄罗斯被捕的监狱回忆录（《公共空间》，第 14 期），我所能说的任何话都无法体现她的魅力和才智。
Just listen to this voice: “He put a number in front of my chest and I thought, This will make me look like those pictures of criminals one sees, Wanted for Murder.
只要听听这个声音：“他在我胸前放了一个号码，我想，这会让我看起来像人们看到的那些因谋杀而通缉的罪犯照片。
Then they took me to be fingerprinted, one finger rolled in the ink after the other, and again I thought, It’s like the movies.
然后他们带我去采集指纹，一根手指又一根手指在墨水里滚动，我又想，这就像电影一样。
Again, we walked through many courtyards and the funny thing was that I did not see anybody.
我们再次走过许多庭院，有趣的是我没有看到任何人。
It was all empty.
一切都是空的。
Finally, I was in my cell, and I still did not know what it was all about.”
最后，我回到了牢房，但我仍然不知道这是怎么回事。”
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Once upon a time, I was a professional archaeologist.
曾几何时，我是一名专业考古学家。
Freelance survey and excavation work paid some of my bills my last year of college and my first couple of years out of school.
自由调查和挖掘工作支付了我大学最后一年和毕业前几年的部分账单。
I was waitlisted for a PhD to study caves with a famous spelunking archaeologist at Washington University and had determined if I didn’t get in I’d go a different route.
我被列入等待博士学位的名单，与华盛顿大学一位著名的洞穴考古学家一起研究洞穴，并决定如果我没有进入，我会走另一条路。
By then I realized that archaeology and literature have more in common than people realize—and I love them for the same reasons.
那时我意识到考古学和文学比人们意识到的有更多的共同点——而且我出于同样的原因喜欢它们。
They are both, I believe, about our need to seek and excavate truth.
我相信，它们都与我们寻求和挖掘真理的需要有关。
But archaeologists, like many breeds of scientist, aren’t natural storytellers, and I am always glad when a writer happens upon archaeology and finds a way to explore the people and projects of a fascinating field.
但考古学家和许多科学家一样，并不是天生的讲故事的人，当作家偶然接触到考古学并找到一种方法来探索这个迷人领域的人和项目时，我总是很高兴。
John Jeremiah Sullivan does this in his wonderful Paris Review essay, “Unnamed Caves” (purchase req.), and it’s now in his excellent collection, Pulphead.
约翰·耶利米·沙利文 (John Jeremiah Sullivan) 在他精彩的《巴黎评论》文章“无名洞穴”（需要购买）中做到了这一点，现在它出现在他的优秀收藏《Pulphead》中。
Go spelunking with him.
和他一起去探秘吧。
Here’s a bonus: another favorite writer of mine, Elif Batuman, dug into Turkish archaeology in her essay, “The Sanctuary” for The New Yorker (sub.
这里有一个额外的好处：我最喜欢的另一位作家埃利夫·巴图曼 (Elif Batuman) 在她为《纽约客》撰写的文章《庇护所》（sub.1）中深入探讨了土耳其考古学。
required).
必填）。
She visits the world’s oldest temple and deftly unravels its history and mythology.
她参观了世界上最古老的寺庙，并巧妙地揭开了它的历史和神话。
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I would be lying by omission if I didn’t admit to reading a ton of celebrity dish in the tub.
如果我不承认在浴缸里读过大量名人菜肴，那我就是在撒谎。
I think my favorite this year was “Lowe, Actually,” the excerpt in Vanity Fair of Rob Lowe’s memoir.
我想今年我最喜欢的是《Lowe, 事实上》，这是《名利场》中罗伯·劳 (Rob Lowe) 回忆录的摘录。
I don’t really have a thing for Rob Lowe.
我对罗布·劳没什么好感。
Never have.
从来没有。
(For instance, I loved West Wing but for the overuse of pancake makeup on Lowe’s face.) But I spent 6th grade idolizing S.
（例如，我喜欢《白宫风云》，但因为 Lowe 的脸上过度使用了煎饼妆。） 但我在六年级时崇拜 S。
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Hinton for The Outsiders.
辛顿为局外人。
And I was hooked again when I finally got to see the movie.
当我终于看到这部电影时，我再次被迷住了。
So, yes, Rob Lowe had me at his mention of Ponyboy.
所以，是的，罗布·洛一提到小马男孩就吸引了我。
Stay gold, y’all.
保持黄金，你们大家。
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整个 12 月，分享您自己的 2011 年 5 首长读作品。
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