Elmo Keep: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011
Elmo Keep is a writer who has written for The Hairpin, and other places.
Elmo Keep 是一位作家，曾为《发夹》和其他地方撰稿。
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The Tetris Effect — Justin Wolfe, The Awl
俄罗斯方块效应——贾斯汀·沃尔夫，《锥子》
There really isn’t a way to talk about this without spoiling the reveals.
确实没有办法在不破坏真相的情况下谈论这个问题。
Just read it, whether you understand gaming or not, it doesn’t matter: If you don’t, you will come away curious, and if you do, you will have your mind blown it’s just so clever and moving and wonderful.
只要读一下它，无论你是否了解游戏，都没关系：如果你不了解，你会感到好奇，如果你了解，你会大吃一惊，它是如此聪明、动人和精彩。
The narrative structure of this piece is so satisfyingly interwoven and then resolved, it’s one of those stories that makes for a totally different experience on the second reading.
这篇文章的叙事结构是如此令人满意地交织在一起然后得到解决，这是一个在第二次阅读时带来完全不同体验的故事之一。
This is the kind of enthralling, super-long writing that I love the Internet for making space for.
这是一种引人入胜的超长写作，我喜欢互联网为它腾出空间。
Joan — Sara Davidson, ByLiner Original
琼 — 萨拉·戴维森 (Sara Davidson)，ByLiner Original
This was a beautiful companion to Blue Nights, Didion’s most recent memoir.
这是迪迪安最新回忆录《蓝色之夜》的绝妙伴侣。
In that book, she is very adept as all memoirists are, at revealing only what she chooses to while weaving the illusion of revealing everything.
在那本书中，她像所有回忆录作家一样非常擅长只透露她选择透露的内容，同时编织出揭露一切的幻觉。
Sara Davidson has known Didion for forty years and the portrait that she paints of her very affectionately is in a lot of ways more complete than the image that Didion presents of herself.
莎拉·戴维森认识迪迪安已有四十年了，她非常深情地为迪迪安画的肖像在很多方面比迪迪安所描绘的自己的形象更完整。
A must for Joan Didion tragics like me, especially for the glimpses of her life with John Gregory Dunne written from an outsider’s perspective peppered throughout.
对于像我这样的琼·迪迪安来说，这是一部必读的悲剧，尤其是从局外人的角度来描写她与约翰·格雷戈里·邓恩的生活。
Blindsight — Chris Colin, The Atavist
盲视——克里斯·科林，返祖者
The Atavist have really pioneered what is the logical evolution of longform writing for the web, integrating everything about the medium into tablet-only experiences that truly immerse you in a world.
Atavist 真正开创了网络长篇写作的逻辑演变，将媒体的一切整合到平板电脑上的体验中，真正让您沉浸在一个世界中。
In this story the writer finds ways to let us experience what is happening to the protagonist — a man who has suffered an horrific brain injury — so vividly that we can for a moment inhabit is mind, a place where memory and time have been shattered and distorted.
在这个故事中，作者想方设法让我们生动地体验主人公（一个遭受了可怕的脑损伤的人）身上发生的事情，以至于我们可以暂时栖息在心灵中，一个记忆和时间都被粉碎和扭曲的地方。
You also get the sense throughout of how much the writer cared for his subject and the result is a humane and profound portrait of resilience.
你还可以感受到作者对他的主题的关心程度，其结果是对韧性的人性化和深刻的描绘。
What Makes A Great Critic?
是什么造就了伟大的批评家？
— Maria Bustillos, The Awl
——玛丽亚·布斯蒂洛斯，《锥子》
The Internet has been wonderful for writing for so many reasons, but also, terrible!
出于多种原因，互联网对于写作来说非常美妙，但也很糟糕！
For others!
为了别人！
Particularly when it comes to cultural criticism (pop culture especially).
特别是在文化批评（尤其是流行文化）方面。
In this piece Maria Bustillos does everyone a favour by pointing out that recaps are not reviews and takes a long, considered look at what makes criticism valuable when the writer really, really cares about the subject.
在这篇文章中，玛丽亚·布斯蒂洛斯（Maria Bustilos）指出，重述不是评论，她对每个人都有利，她经过长时间、深思熟虑的审视，当作者真正非常关心这个主题时，什么使批评变得有价值。
This piece goes a long way to settling the “criticism vs review” debate and is a must read for all aspiring critics and an excellent brush-up for any working critic who might have let complacency slip in.
这篇文章对于解决“批评与评论”的争论大有帮助，是所有有抱负的批评家的必读之作，也是任何可能自满的工作批评家的绝佳温习。
The Quaid Conspiracy — Nancy Jo Sales, Vanity Fair
奎德阴谋 — Nancy Jo Sales，《名利场》
I loved this inversion of a celebrity profile, especially in Vanity Fair to read about people on the fringes of that machine.
我喜欢这种对名人形象的颠倒，尤其是在《名利场》中读到那些处于机器边缘的人。
Not even the writer is certain what’s true and what isn’t in this caper — which is really what it reads like; being dragged along on a wildly tangential ride rife with drugs and paranoia.
就连作者也不确定这个胡言乱语中的内容是真是假——这确实是它读起来的样子；被拖着走上一段充满毒品和偏执的疯狂旅程。
The By Far Funnest Read of the Year — American Marvel — Edith Zimmerman, GQ
迄今为止年度最有趣的读物——《美国漫威》——Edith Zimmerman，《GQ》
This gets so much love because it is *fucking awesome*, that’s why.
这得到了如此多的喜爱，因为它“太棒了”，这就是原因。
It’s also been widely derided by old people, which is again a tick in its favour in my view.
它也受到了老年人的广泛嘲笑，在我看来，这又是对它有利的。
This is the exact kind of celebrity profile you want to read: It’s a publicist’s nightmare, which again, is why it’s so great.
这正是你想要阅读的名人简介：这是公关人员的噩梦，这也是它如此伟大的原因。
Read it!
读它！
Read them all!
全部阅读！
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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。