Alexander Chee's Top 5 Longreads of 2011: #Fiction and #Nonfiction
Alexander Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh and the forthcoming The Queen of the Night.
亚历山大·奇 (Alexander Chee) 是小说《爱丁堡》和即将出版的《夜女王》的作者。
(See more on his Longreads page.)
（请参阅他的长读页面了解更多信息。）
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My Top Fiction Longreads for 2011:
我的 2011 年热门小说长读：
• Mary Gaitskill’s “The Other Place”, The New Yorker, Feb.
• 玛丽·盖茨基尔（Mary Gaitskill）的“另一个地方”，《纽约客》，二月号。
11, 2011: Beautiful, seemingly casual, smart and terrifying, it is the story of a man worried his child will grow up to be a killer.
2011年11月11日：美丽、看似随意、聪明又可怕，这是一个男人担心自己的孩子长大后成为杀手的故事。
Gaitskill at her best.
盖茨基尔处于最佳状态。
• Justin Torres, “Reverting to a Wild State”, The New Yorker, August 1, 2011: What better could you hope for than a story that begins with a beautiful man in a diaper?
• Justin Torres，“恢复狂野状态”，《纽约客》，2011 年 8 月 1 日：还有什么比一个以穿尿布的漂亮男人开始的故事更好的呢？
And for money?
为了钱？
• Lauren Groff’s “Above and Below”, The New Yorker (subscription required), June 13, 2011: A young woman who slides right out of the educated class into homelessness.
• Lauren Groff 的“Above and Below”，《纽约客》（需订阅），2011 年 6 月 13 日：一名年轻女子从受过教育的阶层滑落，陷入无家可归的境地。
• Deborah Eisenberg’s “Recalculating”, July 14, 2011, The New York Review of Books: If you hear people tell you about short stories that do what novels do, and you don’t believe it, read Eisenberg.
• Deborah Eisenberg 的“重新计算”，2011 年 7 月 14 日，《纽约书评》：如果您听到人们告诉您有关长篇小说的短篇小说，而您不相信，请阅读 Eisenberg。
This is one of those stories.
这是这些故事之一。
• Yang Sok-Il’s “In Shinjuku” at Granta Online, April 14, 2011: A rare glimpse of the life of a Japanese Korean from a writer who is largely unknown to us in the West for being under-translated.
• Yang Sok-Il 的《In Shinjuku》，Granta Online，2011 年 4 月 14 日：一位作家对日本韩国人生活的罕见一瞥，这位作家因翻译不足而在西方很大程度上不为我们所知。
My Top Nonfiction Longreads for 2011
我的 2011 年最佳非小说长读作品
• Porochista Khakpour’s “Camel Ride” at Guernica, Feb.
• Porochista Khakpour 在格尔尼卡的“骑骆驼”，2 月
15, 2011: “I learned English through watching the Twilight Zone.” Porochista is a friend and also a favorite writer, and this, I think, is one of her best of the memoirs she is publishing.
2011年12月15日：“我通过观看暮光之城学会了英语。”波罗奇斯塔是一位朋友，也是一位最喜欢的作家，我认为这是她正在出版的最好的回忆录之一。
• John Jeremiah Sullivan’s “Mr. Lytle” at the Paris Review is the record of an extraordinary apprenticeship.
• 约翰·耶利米·沙利文（John Jeremiah Sullivan）在《巴黎评论》上的《莱特尔先生》记录了他非凡的学徒生涯。
• Paul Ford’s “Facebook and the Epiphinator” at New York Magazine was a revelatory essay on Facebook’s impact on our lives but also our narratives.
• Paul Ford 在《纽约杂志》上发表的《Facebook 和 Epiphinator》是一篇关于 Facebook 对我们的生活和叙事的影响的启发性文章。
A lot of people try to write about “what Facebook means” but Paul really did it.
很多人试图写下“Facebook 的含义”，但保罗确实做到了。
• Eileen Myles’ “Being Female”, at The Awl: ”When I think about being female I think about being loved.” Amazing.
• Eileen Myles 的“Being Female”，The Awl：“当我想到成为女性时，我想到的是被爱。”惊人的。
The sentences just blow everything up.
这些句子只会炸毁一切。
• Nell Boeschenstein’s “Now That Books Mean Nothing”, at The Morning News: She is a new favorite of mine, and this is a powerful essay about the author’s discovery that books have lost their ability to console her in difficult times.
• Nell Boeschenstein 在《晨报》上发表的《现在书籍毫无意义》：她是我的新宠，这是一篇有力的文章，讲述了作者发现书籍在困难时期失去了安慰她的能力。
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Share your own Top 5 Longreads of 2011, all through December.
整个 12 月，分享您自己的 2011 年 5 首长读作品。
Just tag it #longreads on Twitter, Tumblr or Facebook.
只需在 Twitter、Tumblr 或 Facebook 上标记#longreads 即可。