Eleven Books to Read in 2019

Kiese LaymonProfessor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi; author of several books, including most recently the memoir Heavy.

Kiese Laymon 密西西比大学英语与创意写作教授；多本书的作者，包括最近的回忆录《Heavy》。

## The Reckonings by Lacy Johnson (Scribner)

## 《清算》，莱西·约翰逊 (Lacy Johnson)（斯克里布纳）

I read, reread and loved Lacy Johnson’s new book, The Reckonings.

我读了又读，很喜欢莱西·约翰逊的新书《清算》。

I was shocked by how Lacy really complicated my understandings of justice, disaster and just art.

令我震惊的是，莱西让我对正义、灾难和正义艺术的理解变得如此复杂。

In a way that hopefully sounds sincere and not sentimental, Lacy made me think, and actually believe, justice was possible, and art must lead the way.

莱西以一种希望听起来真诚而不是感伤的方式让我思考，并且实际上相信，正义是可能的，艺术必须引领道路。

The flip is that the book subtextually forced me to reckon with the roles art and artists have in sanctioning suffering, which forced me to reconsider justice as this clearly demarcated destination.

不同的是，这本书潜移默化地迫使我思考艺术和艺术家在制裁苦难中所扮演的角色，这迫使我重新考虑正义作为这个明确划分的目的地。

I actually think The Reckonings, Eloquent Rage, and No Ashes in The Fire are in this radical three-pronged conversation with each other in 2018 about where we’ve been, and what we do with where we’ve been.

事实上，我认为《清算》、《雄辩之怒》和《烈火中不再灰烬》是 2018 年关于我们去过的地方以及我们如何处理我们去过的地方的激进的三管齐下的对话。

They are masterfully conceived projects and generously constructed.

它们是构思巧妙、建造慷慨的项目。

At the root of all three are warnings, rightful celebrations, and lush ass uses of language.

这三者的根源都是警告、正当的庆祝和大量的语言使用。

Nafissa Thompson-SpiresWriter of fiction, author of the short story collection Heads of the Colored People.

纳菲萨·汤普森-斯皮雷斯（Nafissa Thompson-Spires）是小说家，短篇小说集《有色人种的头》的作者。

## Meet Behind Mars by Renee Simms (Wayne State University Press)

## 在火星后面相遇作者：Renee Simms（韦恩州立大学出版社）

Short story collections — often maligned because they “don’t sell” — have garnered their fair share of attention this year, with several making popular “best of” lists and longlists for major literary awards.

短篇小说集经常因为“卖不出去”而受到诟病，但今年却获得了相当多的关注，其中几部作品进入了流行的“最佳”名单和主要文学奖的长名单。

And I am totally here for that.

我完全就是为了这个而来的。

Short stories are not just practice runs for the novel, but a respectable and challenging genre all on their own.

短篇小说不仅仅是小说的练习，而且本身就是一种受人尊敬且具有挑战性的体裁。

I wish, however, that one well-deserving collection were much more visible.

然而，我希望有一个当之无愧的收藏品能够更加引人注目。

I first learned of Renee Simms’ Meet Behind Mars last winter and immediately invited her (and Jamel Brinkley) to join me in proposing a debut short-story writers panel for AWP (an annual writers’ conference).

去年冬天，我第一次听说蕾妮·西姆斯 (Renee Simms) 的《在火星后面相会》(Meet Behind Mars)，并立即邀请她（和贾梅尔·布林克利 (Jamel Brinkley)）与我一起为 AWP（年度作家会议）提议设立首个短篇小说作家小组。

The book’s stories range from darkly humorous to melancholic, all connected by vibrant detail and lush settings (New Orleans, a pawnshop, academia, the 1970s, now).

这本书的故事从黑色幽默到忧郁，所有故事都通过充满活力的细节和华丽的背景（新奥尔良、当铺、学术界、20 世纪 70 年代、现在）联系在一起。

At the conference, Renee gave a reading of the collection’s titular epistolary story that was such a hit with the crowd that I was afraid to read (after her) my own epistolary story, also about the school woes of black children.

在会议上，蕾妮朗读了该集的同名书信体故事，这个故事在人群中非常受欢迎，以至于我不敢读（在她之后）我自己的书信体故事，其中也涉及黑人儿童的学校困境。

It’s not that Meet Behind Mars has remained completely obscure.

火星背后的相遇并不是完全默默无闻。

Tayari Jones has championed it, blurbing the book and mentioning it as a favorite on NPR.

塔亚里·琼斯 (Tayari Jones) 对此表示支持，对这本书进行了模糊描述，并在 NPR 上提到它是最受欢迎的书。

And if you won’t take my word for it, please, take Tayari’s.

如果你不相信我的话，请接受塔亚里的话。

It’s just that the book deserves to be read more widely, savored, and carefully listed as a required text on spring-semester syllabi across the world.

只是这本书值得更广泛地阅读、品味，并被仔细列为世界各地春季学期教学大纲的必读文本。

It’s short enough to enjoy in one day, but you’ll likely still be thinking about the stories long after you’ve closed the book.

这本书很短，一天就能看完，但合上书后很长一段时间你可能仍然会想起这些故事。

R.O.

R.O.

KwonAuthor of the novel The Incendiaries.

权，小说《燃烧弹》的作者。

## Bad Friends by Ancco (Drawn & Quarterly)

## 《坏朋友》，作者：Ancco（绘图和季刊）

This year, I’ve been reading a lot more graphic novels and memoirs.

今年，我读了更多的图画小说和回忆录。

I’ve wondered why this is, and I think it could have to do with the fact that, in 2018, I published my first book, a novel.

我想知道为什么会这样，我认为这可能与 2018 年我出版了我的第一本书——一本小说有关。

I’ve spent more time out in public, and on social media, than I ever have.

我在公共场合和社交媒体上花费的时间比以往任何时候都多。

In the midst of so much chatter, so many words, it’s possible I’ve been particularly attracted to silence, and to depictions thereof.

在如此多的闲聊、如此多的话语中，我可能特别喜欢沉默以及对沉默的描述。

Graphic books, or so I’ve been finding, are especially well suited to portraying varieties of silence.

至少我发现，图画书特别适合描绘各种沉默。

One of my favorite graphic-novel reads this year was Ancco’s Bad Friends, translated by Janet Hong.

今年我最喜欢的图画小说之一是珍妮特·洪（Janet Hong）翻译的《安科的坏朋友》。

It’s set in South Korea, outside of Seoul, and the adult narrator, Jinju, looks back on a lost childhood friendship.

故事发生在韩国首尔郊外，成年叙述者金珠回顾了失去的童年友谊。

There’s a great deal of violence in this book, and terrible cycles of physical and emotional abuse; in the midst of so much pain, the narrator finds a kindred soul in a close friend, Jung-ae.

这本书里有大量的暴力，以及身体和精神虐待的可怕循环；在如此多的痛苦中，叙述者在一位亲密的朋友正爱身上找到了志同道合的灵魂。

What follows is a heartbreaking, powerful story about the enchantments and limitations of love.

接下来是一个关于爱情的魅力和局限性的令人心碎、有力的故事。

This is a wonderful book.

这是一本很棒的书。

Alice BolinCritic, essayist, journalist, and poet; Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of Memphis; author of the collection Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession.

艾丽丝·博林 (Alice Bolin) 评论家、散文家、记者和诗人；孟菲斯大学创意非小说客座助理教授； 《死亡女孩：关于在美国迷恋中幸存的散文》一书的作者。

## The Victorian and the Romantic: A Memoir, a Love Story, and a Friendship Across Time by Nell Stevens (Doubleday)

## 维多利亚时代与浪漫主义：回忆录、爱情故事和跨越时空的友谊作者：内尔·史蒂文斯 (Doubleday)

I admit this is the kind of assignment that gives me anxiety.

我承认这是一种让我感到焦虑的任务。

I have no way of knowing what books you, the reader, may have missed, and I suspect they are probably the same ones I did, considering the determinist paradox of personalized algorithms on shopping and social media websites.

我无法知道读者可能错过了哪些书，考虑到购物和社交媒体网站上个性化算法的决定论悖论，我怀疑它们可能是我读过的书。

That said, the 2018 book I would like to show a little love is the genre-defying memoir The Victorian and the Romantic, by one of my new favorite nonfiction writers, Nell Stevens.

也就是说，2018 年我想表达一点喜爱的书是我最喜欢的非小说类作家之一内尔·史蒂文斯 (Nell Stevens) 所写的反流派回忆录《维多利亚时代与浪漫主义》。

The book follows Stevens as she begins a PhD program in English literature in London and falls in deep, long distance love with a former classmate, an American.

这本书讲述了史蒂文斯在伦敦开始攻读英国文学博士学位时的故事，她与一位美国人的前同学坠入了深深的异地恋。

Paralleling this narrative, Stevens weaves a semi-fictional story of the emotional love affair between Victorian novelist (and Charlotte Brontë’s friend and biographer) Elizabeth Gaskell and American author Charles Eliot Norton.

与这个叙述相呼应的是，史蒂文斯编织了一个半虚构的故事，讲述了维多利亚时代小说家（夏洛特·勃朗特的朋友兼传记作者）伊丽莎白·加斯凯尔和美国作家查尔斯·艾略特·诺顿之间的情感爱情故事。

In the UK, Stevens’ book is titled Mrs. Gaskell and I, and I guess we have this alternate title because Americans don’t know who Gaskell is (upside down smiley face emoji).

在英国，史蒂文斯的书的标题是《加斯凯尔夫人和我》，我想我们有这个替代标题是因为美国人不知道加斯凯尔是谁（颠倒的笑脸表情符号）。

But Stevens inhabits the earlier writer’s interiority with such empathy and audacious sentimentality, the reader can’t help but feel the same connection to Gaskell that Stevens does.

但史蒂文斯以如此同理心和大胆的感伤体现了早期作家的内心，读者不禁会感受到史蒂文斯与盖斯凯尔的联系。

The Victorian and the Romantic embodies all the possibility and playfulness I love about the nonfiction genre, using both historical fiction and more traditional memoir as techniques to examine Stevens’ own experience: to comment on her journey through academia and the impossible intimacy scholars seek with their subjects.

《维多利亚时代和浪漫主义》体现了我喜欢的非小说类小说的所有可能性和趣味性，使用历史小说和更传统的回忆录作为技巧来审视史蒂文斯自己的经历：评论她的学术生涯以及学者们与他们的主题寻求的不可能的亲密关系。

Maya RaoJournalist and author of Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier.

玛雅·拉奥 (Maya Rao) 记者兼《伟大的美国前哨：梦想家、特立独行者和石油前沿的形成》一书的作者。

## Voices From the Rust Belt edited by Anne Trubek (Picador)

## 来自铁锈地带的声音 由 Anne Trubek (Picador) 编辑

Nonfiction chronicles of the heartland too often involve familiar tales of downtrodden factory workers or coastal authors bemoaning Middle Americans’ conservative politics.

关于中心地带的非小说编年史常常涉及受压迫的工厂工人或沿海作家哀叹中美洲保守政治的熟悉故事。

Yet this anthology offers a fresh, original perspective on the industrial Midwest that includes reflections on a shut-down gay bar in Cincinnati, the bonds of Iraqi immigrants in Cleveland, and the haunting culture of a prison town in West Virginia.

然而，这本选集为工业中西部提供了一个新鲜、原创的视角，其中包括对辛辛那提一家被关闭的同性恋酒吧、克利夫兰伊拉克移民的纽带以及西弗吉尼亚州一座监狱小镇令人难以忘怀的文化的反思。

One of the best pieces is told from the point of view of a middle-aged social worker in Pittsburgh struggling to help a man name John who “nods like he’s defeated, like jail and everything else have already won.” Another memorable essay explores Henry Ford’s legacy and the “lifeless” suburban communities of the Motor City, concluding that “while Detroit rots, the nostalgic, fauxtopian villages that surround that city are a vision of history some would rather embrace.” The book prominently addresses race, particularly with a witty, acerbic essay that ridicules white newcomers trying to save Detroit.

其中一部最好的作品是从匹兹堡一位中年社会工作者的角度讲述的，他努力帮助一个名叫约翰的人，约翰“点头，就像他被打败了，就像监狱和其他一切都已经赢了一样。”另一篇令人难忘的文章探讨了亨利·福特的遗产和汽车城“死气沉沉”的郊区社区，得出的结论是“虽然底特律正在腐烂，但围绕该城市的怀旧、仿乌托邦的村庄是一些人宁愿拥抱的历史愿景。”这本书突出讨论了种族问题，尤其是一篇诙谐、尖刻的文章，嘲笑了试图拯救底特律的白人新移民。

Though uneven at times, Rust Belt offers an authentic portrayal of a region that often makes the national news but too rarely gets captured with such range and nuance.

虽然有时参差不齐，但《铁锈地带》真实地描绘了一个经常成为全国新闻的地区，但很少能以如此广泛和细微的差别被捕捉到。

Alec Nevala-LeeAuthor of Astounding: John W.

亚历克·内瓦拉-李 (Alec Nevala-Lee) 《令人震惊》的作者：John W.

Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A.

坎贝尔、艾萨克·阿西莫夫、罗伯特·A.

Heinlein, L.

海因莱因，L.

Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction.

罗恩·哈伯德和科幻小说的黄金时代。

## The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois (Bloomsbury)

## 《世界只会向前旋转：天使在美国的崛起》，作者：艾萨克·巴特勒 (Isaac Butler) 和丹·科伊斯 (Dan Kois) (Bloomsbury)

On November 8, 1992, the second half of Tony Kushner’s epic Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes premiered in Los Angeles, leading one critic to describe the play as arriving “at the very pivot of American history, when the Republican ice age it depicts has begun to melt away.” A quarter of a century later, the wheel has come full circle, and Kushner’s masterpiece — featuring a fictionalized version of the lawyer Roy Cohn, whose most successful apprentice now sits in the White House — seems more relevant than ever.

1992 年 11 月 8 日，托尼·库什纳 (Tony Kushner) 的史诗巨制《天使在美国：国家主题的同性恋幻想曲》的后半部分在洛杉矶首演，一位评论家形容该剧“到达了美国历史的转折点，此时它所描绘的共和党冰河时代已经开始融化”。四分之一个世纪后，一切又回到了原点，库什纳的杰作——以律师罗伊·科恩的虚构版本为主角，他最成功的学徒现在坐在白宫——似乎比以往任何时候都更有意义。

The World Only Spins Forward chronicles the play’s birth, reception, and surprising afterlife in the words of those who made it, and it paints a compelling picture of the community of actors, producers, activists, and stage professionals who transformed a playwright’s private vision into a theatrical and cultural event rivaled in our time only by Hamilton.

《世界只会向前旋转》用制作者的话记录了该剧的诞生、接受和令人惊讶的来世，它描绘了演员、制片人、活动家和舞台专业人士社区的引人注目的画面，他们将剧作家的个人愿景转变为我们这个时代只有汉密尔顿可以匹敌的戏剧和文化事件。

The result is a valuable document of its era, a treasure trove of gossip and creative insight, and a handbook for surviving as an artist in the face of indifference and oppression, and its message urgently deserves to be heard at a moment when what Kushner calls “the Great Work” prepares to begin yet again.

其成果是这个时代的一份有价值的文件，是八卦和创造性洞察力的宝库，是作为一名艺术家在冷漠和压迫面前生存的手册，在库什纳所说的“伟大的工作”准备再次开始的时刻，它的信息迫切值得被听到。

Terese Marie MailhotEssayist, author of Heart Berries: A Memoir, and teacher at Purdue University.

Terese Marie Mailhot 散文家，《心浆果：回忆录》作者，普渡大学教师。

## Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead (Arsenal Pulp Press)

## Jonny Appleseed 作者：Joshua Whitehead（阿森纳纸浆出版社）

Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed is a Two-Spirit bildungsroman.

约书亚·怀特海德（Joshua Whitehead）的《乔尼·阿普尔西德》（Jonny Appleseed）是一部双魂成长小说。

Whitehead gave me lines like, “My home is full of hope and ghosts,” and I knew exactly what he was talking about, and it made me choke up, because I understand the nostalgia about leaving home, or leaving the rez, while desiring white things — and a lifestyle that doesn’t exist, or falls dim compared to what we leave behind unresolved.

怀特黑德给了我这样的台词，“我的家充满了希望和鬼魂”，我确切地知道他在说什么，这让我哽咽，因为我理解离开家或离开住宅的怀旧之情，同时渴望白色的东西——以及一种不存在的生活方式，或者与我们留下的未解决的问题相比变得黯淡。

Whitehead has a good eye.

怀特海有一双慧眼。

The narrative selects only a few details to give about a space, but they are the exact right details.

叙述只选择了一些关于空间的细节，但它们是完全正确的细节。

There’s a lot of grace in the work as well.

工作中也有很多恩典。

It’s dealing with heavy content but it’s not playing on anyone’s pathos, it’s simply exacting an experience we have to bear witness to.

它处理的是沉重的内容，但它并没有渲染任何人的悲情，它只是要求我们必须见证一种体验。

I like the humor.

我喜欢这种幽默。

I like the fragmentation within the structure of the book — it never loses me.

我喜欢这本书结构的碎片化——它永远不会让我迷失。

Whitehead is in full control and resisting reader expectations in terms of self-pity or shame.

怀特海完全控制并抵制读者在自怜或羞耻方面的期望。

I love a voice that isn’t going to tiptoe into the most gutting, honest, or raw moments.

我喜欢一种不会蹑手蹑脚地进入最痛苦、最诚实或最原始时刻的声音。

I like a narrative that is unashamed, because writing with resistance isn’t easy — it’s actually quite hard to step into the world resisting.

我喜欢无耻的叙述，因为带着抵抗力写作并不容易——事实上，走进抵抗的世界是相当困难的。

Thomas Page McBeeJournalist and author of Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man and Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness, and Becoming a Man.

托马斯·佩吉·麦克比 (Thomas Page McBee) 记者，《业余爱好者：一个关于什么使男人和男人活着的真实故事：一个关于暴力、宽恕和成为男人的真实故事》一书的作者。

## Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg (One World)

## 乔迪·罗森伯格《狐狸的自白》（同一个世界）

Jordy Rosenberg’s Confessions of the Fox is queer in every sense of the word.

乔迪·罗森伯格的《狐狸的自白》从各个方面来说都是奇怪的。

It takes a popular, even dusty, form—the historical novel—and so radically and inventively reimagines it, I found myself, thrillingly, led to question my most basic ideas about time, gender, the stories we tell, and who gets to tell them.

它采用了一种流行的、甚至是尘土飞扬的形式——历史小说——并且如此彻底地、创造性地重新想象它，我发现自己，令人兴奋地，开始质疑我关于时间、性别、我们讲述的故事以及谁来讲述这些故事的最基本的想法。

Unbelievably, this is a first novel for Rosenberg, who happens to be both trans and an academic like his novel’s protagonist, Dr. Voth, who stumbles on a heretofore undiscovered 1724 text that outlines the swashbuckling adventures of the queer duo Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess.

令人难以置信的是，这是罗森伯格的第一部小说，他碰巧是跨性别者，也是一位学者，就像小说的主人公沃斯博士一样，沃斯博士偶然发现了一篇迄今为止未被发现的 1724 年文本，其中概述了酷儿二人组杰克·谢泼德和埃奇沃斯·贝丝的虚张声势的冒险经历。

Confessions of the Fox is about authenticity, as Dr. Voth, in footnotes, attempts to uncover the manuscript’s “realness,” but it’s also a story about time’s collapse, and the histories we never get to read, and being a body born of constant reinvention.

《狐狸的自白》是关于真实性的，正如沃斯博士在脚注中试图揭示手稿的“真实性”一样，但它也是一个关于时间崩溃的故事，以及我们永远无法阅读的历史，以及作为一个不断重塑的身体的故事。

The book is smart, sexy, affecting, and joyous.

这本书聪明、性感、感人、欢乐。

Rosenberg has uncovered—no, tapped into—something very deep here.

罗森伯格在这里发现了——不，是挖掘了——一些非常深刻的东西。

This fictional history of queerness is as “real” as the many stories we sense have never been told but, nevertheless, travel on, year after year, within us.

这段虚构的酷儿历史就像我们感觉到的许多故事一样“真实”，虽然从未被讲述过，但年复一年地在我们内心传播。

Reading it felt revolutionary.

读它感觉是革命性的。

Elizabeth RushAuthor of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore and instructor of creative nonfiction at Brown University.

伊丽莎白·拉什（Elizabeth Rush）是《崛起：来自新美国海岸的快讯》的作者，也是布朗大学非小说类创意讲师。

## Extra Hidden Life, among the Days by Brenda Hillman (Wesleyan University Press)

## 《额外隐藏的生活，在日子中》作者：布伦达·希尔曼（卫斯理大学出版社）

This past summer Brenda Hillman and I did an event at one of my favorite indies in the country, Point Reyes Books.

去年夏天，布伦达·希尔曼（Brenda Hillman）和我在这个国家我最喜欢的独立游戏之一——Point Reyes Books 举办了一场活动。

The night before I was camped out on the coast.

前一天晚上我在海边露营。

My tent pitched half a mile from the decomposing body of a juvenile blue whale; its spine severed from a propeller strike.

我的帐篷距离一头幼年蓝鲸腐烂的尸体有半英里。它的脊柱因螺旋桨撞击而被切断。

I brought Brenda’s latest book to keep me company, Extra Hidden Life, among the Days, and can think of no better traveling companion.

我带了布伦达的最新书《额外的隐秘生活》来陪伴我，我想不出比这更好的旅行伴侣了。

Large-hearted and strangely idiosyncratic, this book is a record of a fiercely independent mind at work, in turns song-filled and surprising.

这本书心胸宽广，风格奇特，记录了一个极其独立的思想在工作中的情况，同时充满了歌曲和令人惊讶的内容。

Often I think of these lines from “Poem for a National Seashore”: “By the sea the orbweaver…was bolder than the country, / it didn’t see underlying leverage or hedging, / didn’t see…the probably 100 trillion traded on / what is called futures while the mountain lion that // has a small future took her young through the O in / October.” The poems in Extra Hidden Life, among the Days teach us how to navigate this tumultuous time by returning us to the places that matter most––and the alternative logics they propose––where mounting losses demand both elegy and electric political engagement, prayer and praise.

我经常想起《国家海岸诗》中的这些诗句：“在海边，织布者……比国家更大胆，/它没有看到潜在的杠杆或对冲，/没有看到……可能有 100 万亿美元的交易/所谓的期货，而//前途渺茫的山狮在/十月带着她的孩子穿过了 O。” 《额外隐秘的生活》中的诗歌教导我们如何通过让我们回到最重要的地方来驾驭这个动荡的时代——以及它们提出的替代逻辑——在那里，不断增加的损失需要挽歌和激动人心的政治参与、祈祷和赞美。

Michelle TeaAuthor of 10 books of fiction and nonfiction, including the essay collection Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms.

米歇尔·蒂亚 (Michelle Tea) 是 10 本小说和非小说类书籍的作者，其中包括散文集《反对回忆录：抱怨、自白和批评》。

Curator of Amethyst Editions, a collaboration with the Feminist Press.

紫水晶版的策展人，与女权主义出版社合作。

## Invasions by Calvin Gimpelevich (Instar Books)

## 卡尔文·金佩列维奇的《入侵》（Instar Books）

Fiction writer Calvin Gimpelevich’s debut short story collection, Invasions, landed at the end of 2018 so it’s got all of 2019 to blow up and blow your minds, as it did mine.

小说作家卡尔文·金佩列维奇 (Calvin Gimpelevich) 的处女作短篇小说集《入侵》于 2018 年底上市，因此 2019 年它会像我一样让你大吃一惊。

Every story in the collections takes you into a landscape rarely if ever explored in fiction.

书中的每个故事都会带你进入小说中很少探索过的风景。

Pieces set in consensus reality depict small but impactful dramas experienced by trans-spectrum characters: a gender non-conforming 22-year-old passes as a teenaged boy in a sexual relationship with a middle-aged woman; a trans man finds temporary community in the liminal space of a trans surgery center; working-class co-workers having DL sex find themselves trapped in a mountaintop blizzard with a straight, rich wedding party.

以共识现实为背景的作品描绘了跨谱系人物所经历的小而有影响力的戏剧：一个性别不合规的 22 岁男孩冒充一个十几岁的男孩，与一个中年妇女发生性关系；一名跨性别者在跨性别手术中心的有限空间中找到了临时社区；进行 DL 性爱的工人阶级同事发现自己被困在山顶暴风雪中，而婚礼派对却很直接、丰富。

But the stories that really gripped me are the pieces with a Black Mirror-esque bent: the masterful Rent, Don’t Own, which tracks a disabled dyke employed by a gym where workers inhabit your body and exercise on your behalf (it’s about a lot more than that, though); a gay man with supernatural abilities occupies the body of a fascist cop raiding a bathhouse in The Sweetness.

但真正吸引我的故事是那些带有《黑镜》风格的故事：精彩的《出租，不要拥有》，讲述了一家健身房雇用的一位残疾人堤坝，那里的工作人员住在你的身体里，代表你锻炼身体（不过，它的意义远不止于此）；在《甜蜜》中，一名具有超自然能力的同性恋男子占据了一名突袭澡堂的法西斯警察的身体。

The way queerness is centered in this collection is striking, mining the depth and variety of queer experience and fusing them with a brilliant imagination to create realities that feel familiar, inevitable and absolutely new.

这个系列以酷儿为中心的方式是引人注目的，挖掘酷儿体验的深度和多样性，并将它们与辉煌的想象力融合起来，创造出令人感到熟悉、不可避免和绝对新鲜的现实。

A serious must-read for 2019, ya’ll!

2019 年必读的一本严肃的书，你会的！

Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahA writer of fiction, author of the short story collection Friday Black.

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 小说家，短篇小说集《黑色星期五》的作者。

## Unearthings by Wendy Chen (Tavern Books)

## Wendy Chen 的发掘（Tavern Books）

There is a special pleasure in watching the suddenly epic: small shrimp in a pond becoming great dragon boats, then, as is the case in the incredible poem “They Sail Across a Mirrored Lake,” maybe the net that sweeps down to gather these shrimp becomes a constellation pulled from the sky.

看着突然出现的史诗，有一种特别的乐趣：池塘里的小虾变成了巨大的龙舟，那么，就像《镜湖》那首令人难以置信的诗一样，也许那张扫下来收集这些虾的网就变成了从天上拉下来的星座。

Wendy Chen is a master of this sort of alchemy; she makes epic life appear everywhere, especially in the dead or dying.

Wendy Chen 就是这种炼金术的大师。她让史诗般的生命无处不在，尤其是在死去或垂死的人身上。

Her debut collection Unearthings has the feeling of something crafted exactly as it was meant to be.

她的首个系列《Unearthings》给人一种精心制作的感觉。

A syllable-level precision makes these pages radiate with a power that hums in your head long after you’ve set the book down.

音节级的精确度使这些书页散发出一种力量，在你放下书后很长一段时间里，这种力量会在你的脑海中嗡嗡作响。

Here is a reminder of a great history that sweeps through our veins.

这里提醒我们一段流淌在我们血管中的伟大历史。

Here is an appreciation for what is remembered, what is lost.

这是对被记住的和失去的的欣赏。

Here is an epic lineage rendered into an essence so pure it shines and hurts and saves.

这是一个史诗般的血统，被渲染成如此纯粹的本质，它闪耀、伤害和拯救。

Wendy Chen’s Unearthings does something to you as you move through its pages.

当你浏览温迪·陈的《发掘》的书页时，它会对你产生一些影响。

She is a special poet with a raw and important power that is evidenced early and often in her debut.

她是一位特殊的诗人，具有原始而重要的力量，这在她的处女作中很早就得到了证明。

Read this book.

读这本书。

Let it wash over you.

让它冲刷你。

You’ll be better for it.

你会因此变得更好。