GQ's Sean Fennessey: My Top Longreads of 2011
Sean Fennessey is the editor of GQ.com.
肖恩·芬尼西 (Sean Fennessey) 是 GQ.com 的编辑。
(See more stories on his Longreads page.)
（在他的长读页面上查看更多故事。）
I’ll try to follow a few guidelines for the sake of imagined objectivity, so, no friends; no GQ pieces; no pieces published before January 1, 2011; no stories pseudonymously submitted by my mom; no sandwiches.
为了想象的客观性，我会尝试遵循一些指导方针，所以，没有朋友；没有 GQ 作品； 2011 年 1 月 1 日之前没有发表任何作品；没有我妈妈匿名提交的故事；没有三明治。
Here we go, with apologies, to, like, everyone.
在此，我们向大家表示歉意。
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Lawrence Wright, The Apostate (The New Yorker, February 14, 2011)
劳伦斯·赖特，《叛教者》（《纽约客》，2011 年 2 月 14 日）
An obvious choice made less obvious by the passage of time.
随着时间的流逝，一个显而易见的选择变得不再那么明显。
It has been only nine months since Wright’s startling, white-knuckled journey to the center of Scientology, with outraged and wounded filmmaker Paul Haggis as his Ahab.
距离赖特踏上山达基教中心的令人惊愕、紧张的旅程才过去九个月，愤怒而受伤的电影制片人保罗·哈吉斯饰演他的亚哈。
In Internet time, this story feels very old—check out Tom Cruise’s new movie, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, this Christmas!—but it hasn’t budged an inch.
在互联网时代，这个故事感觉很古老——看看汤姆·克鲁斯的新电影《碟中谍6：幽灵协议》，今年圣诞节吧！——但它却没有丝毫改变。
Wright has long been a dogged writer-reporter and interpreter of foreign, pre- and post-Judeo-Christian faiths, but he’s never been so simultaneously zingy and stone-faced.
赖特长期以来一直是一位顽强的作家兼记者，也是外国、前犹太基督教和后犹太基督教信仰的诠释者，但他从来没有像现在这样既热情又冷酷。
TNY fact-checkers famously sent the Church of Scientology 971 questions for confirmation before this was published, followed by an eight-hour inquiry session with the religion’s spokesman.
在这篇文章发表之前，纽约市的事实核查人员向山达基教会发送了 971 个问题以供确认，随后与该宗教发言人进行了长达八小时的询问。
I have 971 questions for Wright.
我有 971 个问题要问 Wright。
Question One: How?
问题一：如何？
Alex French and Howie Kahn, The Greatest Paper That Ever Died (Grantland, June 8, 2011)
Alex French 和 Howie Kahn，《有史以来最伟大的论文》（Grantland，2011 年 6 月 8 日）
An arch and hilarious move by the editors at Grantland to lead their launch week with the story of an ambitious, innovative, and ultimately overextended sports publication.
Grantland 的编辑们以一个雄心勃勃、创新且最终过度扩张的体育出版物的故事来引领他们的发布周，这是一个有趣的举动。
Too cute by half or not, French and Kahn, who have contributed great work like this to GQ, too, talk to damn near every wunderkind, wonk, and graybeard involved in the fast construction and faster crumbling of The National, the first (and last) sports-only newspaper.
弗伦奇和卡恩也为《GQ》贡献了这样的伟大作品，无论是否可爱，他们都与几乎所有参与《国家报》快速建设和更快崩溃的神童、书呆子和灰胡子的人进行了交谈，这是第一份（也是最后一份）体育报纸。
By turns funny, informative, and oddly thrilling, it presages the too-much media by at least a decade.
它时而有趣，时而信息丰富，时而令人兴奋，预示着媒体至少将在未来十年出现过多的现象。
Also, the characterization of editor-in-chief and sports scribe demigod Frank DeFord as a dashing dandy beyond all, an almost Gatsby-esque sportswriter (?!) is remarkable.
此外，主编兼体育撰稿人半神弗兰克·德福特（Frank DeFord）被塑造成一位风度翩翩的花花公子，一位几乎盖茨比式的体育撰稿人（？！），这一点也很引人注目。
Jessica Pressler, “It’s Too Bad.
杰西卡·普莱斯勒，“这太糟糕了。
And I Don’t Mean It’s Too Bad Like ‘Screw ’Em.’” (July 24, 2011)
我并不是说这像《滚蛋》那样太糟糕了。”（2011 年 7 月 24 日）
Access isn’t everything, but it’s a lot of things.
访问并不是一切，但它可以解决很多问题。
Refreshing.
令人耳目一新。
Enlightening.
有启发性。
Embarrassing.
尴尬。
Mirth-making.
制造欢乐。
Other gerunds.
其他动名词。
That much is clear in this loose, funny portrait of one of the most important people in America, drawn small and sorta goofy, but not without empathy by Pressler.
在这幅关于美国最重要的人物之一的松散、有趣的肖像中，这一点很清楚，普莱斯勒把它画得很小，有点傻，但并非没有同理心。
Just a damn good and entertaining profile.
只是一个非常好的和有趣的个人资料。
Nathan Rabin, Louis C.K.
内森·拉宾、路易斯·C.K.
Walks Us Through Louie’s Second Season (The AV Club, September 19, 2011)
带我们回顾路易的第二季（AV 俱乐部，2011 年 9 月 19 日）
Rabin is a pretty brilliant cultural critic and flotsam scavenger, but he’s secondary here to the form, the increasingly utilized Insta-Tell-All.
拉宾是一位非常出色的文化评论家和废品拾荒者，但他在这里的地位仅次于越来越多地使用的“Insta-Tell-All”。
Though shows like Louie or the rabidly championed Community are seen by relatively modest audiences, rarely exceeding a few million or so, the fandom they inspire is maniacal, bordering on unhealthy.
尽管像《路易》或《社区》这样的节目的观众相对较少，很少超过几百万左右，但它们激发的粉丝群体却是疯狂的，近乎不健康的。
In some instances, I hate this.
在某些情况下，我讨厌这样。
But when it’s something I care about, I make exceptions.
但当这是我关心的事情时，我就会例外。
This literal step-by-step, shot-by-shot printed audio commentary track for the second season of comedian Louis CK’s FX series plays out in four parts and in a way that both satisfies in a very grim empty-calorie way and devastates with clarity.
这是喜剧演员 Louis CK 的 FX 系列第二季的逐镜头印刷音频评论曲目，分为四个部分，既以一种非常冷酷的空卡路里方式满足，又以清晰的方式摧毁。
Louie isn’t exactly better after you’ve heard about every motivation—it’s fine standing alone, on your DVR.
在您听完所有动机后，路易并没有完全好转 - 独自站在您的 DVR 上也很好。
But that doesn’t mean you won’t inhale this series in one sitting and then enjoy this.
但这并不意味着你不会一口气吸收这个系列，然后享受它。
AJ Daulerio, The Electric Dock Ellis Acid Test: An Attempt To Recreate His Drug-Addled No-Hitter, On Xbox (Deadspin, July 11, 2011)
AJ Daulerio，《电动码头埃利斯酸性测试：尝试在 Xbox 上重现吸毒成瘾的无安打选手》（Deadspin，2011 年 7 月 11 日）
Stunt journalism, maybe.
也许是特技新闻。
Multimedia art project gone wrong, sure.
多媒体艺术项目肯定出了问题。
Belly-button-deep inside baseball, yeah, definitely.
棒球深处的肚脐，是的，绝对是。
Doesn’t mean this very funny and very unnecessary attempt to get high and get paid for it (while sort of lampooning the whole Plimptonian, we-can-do-it style of participatory journalism along the way) isn’t a genuinely inventive and uniquely audience-conscious piece of web writing.
这并不意味着这种非常有趣和非常不必要的尝试来获得高额报酬（同时有点讽刺整个普林普顿式的、我们能做到的参与式新闻风格）不是一篇真正有创意和独特的受众意识的网络写作。
Five More
还有五个
Daniel Zalewski, Show the Monster (The New Yorker)
丹尼尔·扎勒夫斯基，《展示怪物》（《纽约客》）
Guillermo del Toro, a perfect profile subject.
吉尔莫·德尔·托罗，一个完美的人物肖像主题。
Bonus points for savvy multimedia accompaniment.
熟练的多媒体伴奏可加分。
Dan P.
丹·P。
Lee, Travis the Menace (New York Magazine)
李，威胁特拉维斯（纽约杂志）
Brilliantly crafted.
制作精良。
Made a monkey outta me.
让我变成了一只猴子。
Mindy Kaling, Flick Chicks (The New Yorker)
明迪·卡林（Mindy Kaling），《轻弹小鸡》（《纽约客》）
Could probably do with less tweeting and more writing of this kind from Kaling.
卡林可能应该少发推文，多写此类文章。
Bradford Evans, The Lost Roles of Chevy Chase (Splitsider) Wherein the Chevy Chase is a Colossal Asshole reputation is burnished, buffed, and efficiently honed in a countdown form that neatly conveys the story of a career coulda-been.
布拉德福德·埃文斯（Bradford Evans），《切维·蔡斯的失落角色》（Splitsider）其中，切维·蔡斯是一个巨大的混蛋名声，以倒计时的形式被打磨、抛光和有效磨练，巧妙地传达了一个职业可能的故事。
William Bowers, Now What?
威廉·鲍尔斯，现在怎么办？
(Pitchfork) Made me feel better about all my time spent mining the crevasses of insular music writing.
（干草叉）让我对我花在挖掘孤立音乐写作裂缝上的所有时间感觉更好。