Instafiction's Jeremy Bushnell: My Top Fiction Longreads of 2011
Jeremy P.
杰里米·P。
Bushnell is the editor-in-chief of Instafiction.org, which links to a quality short story each weekday.
Bushnell 是 Instafiction.org 的主编，该网站每个工作日都会链接到一篇优质短篇小说。
He stockpiles many other links at his blog, Raccoon.
他在他的博客 Raccoon 上存储了许多其他链接。
He’s also on Twitter.
他也在推特上。
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“Backbone,” David Foster Wallace (The New Yorker)
《骨干》，大卫·福斯特·华莱士（《纽约客》）
During his lifetime, David Foster Wallace made massive contributions to the worlds of fiction and nonfiction alike, and I still miss his presence in the world acutely.
大卫·福斯特·华莱士在其一生中为小说和非小说领域做出了巨大贡献，我仍然非常怀念他在世界上的存在。
The Pale King was a towering book of my summer, and although it didn’t quite yield the pleasures that a truly finished work might have, many of its fragments and episodes had the power of great short stories.
《苍白之王》是我夏天读过的一本巨著，虽然它并没有完全带来真正完成的作品所可能带来的乐趣，但它的许多片段和情节都具有伟大短篇小说的力量。
See, for instance, this chapter, published as a standalone piece in The New Yorker.
例如，参见本章作为独立文章发表在《纽约客》上。
“Zone One,” Colson Whitehead (excerpt, Esquire)
《第一区》，科尔森·怀特海德（摘自《时尚先生》）
Whitehead’s Zone One is a great 2011 novel about government, bureaucracy, urban space, and human population.
怀特海德的《一区》是 2011 年一部关于政府、官僚机构、城市空间和人口的伟大小说。
Oh yeah, it has zombies in it, too.
哦，是的，里面也有僵尸。
Esquire gave us the first 20 pages—detailing a four-zombie attack on the book’s protagonist—right before Halloween, but it’s just as good a read now, at year’s end.
《Esquire》在万圣节前夕为我们提供了前 20 页，详细介绍了四只僵尸对书中主角的攻击，但现在也适合在年底阅读。
“Female Explosion Syndrome” Jessica Forcier (New Delta Review)
“女性爆炸综合症”杰西卡·福西尔（新达美评论）
Women all over the globe begin spontaneously combusting.
全球各地的女性都开始自燃。
Men don’t.
男人则不然。
Feminist?
女权主义者？
Fabulist?
寓言家？
All of the above?
上述所有的？
Either way, this one stuck with us.
不管怎样，这个一直伴随着我们。
Thanks to New Delta Reviewfor publishing it.
感谢《新达美评论》的发布。
“The Empty Room,” Jonathan Lethem (Paris Review)
《空荡荡的房间》，乔纳森·莱瑟姆（《巴黎评论》）
Lethem hasn’t put out a short story collection since 2006’s How We Got Insipid, but he’s still writing short fiction, and this year he placed a memorable tale of domestic collapse with the Paris Review.
自 2006 年的《我们如何变得平淡》以来，莱瑟姆就没有出版过短篇小说集，但他仍在写短篇小说，今年他在《巴黎评论》上刊登了一个令人难忘的家庭崩溃故事。
The setup: Upon moving his family into a sprawling farmhouse, a father makes a decision: one room will remain empty.
故事背景：当一家人搬进一座宽敞的农舍时，一位父亲做出了一个决定：其中一个房间将空着。
“The empty room is like a living organ in our family’s house,” he claims, although in actuality it becomes the hollow core around which the family implodes.
他声称：“空荡荡的房间就像我们家房子里的一个活的器官，”尽管实际上它变成了家庭崩溃的空心核心。
“Becoming Deer,” Rachel Levy (PANK Magazine)
“成为鹿”，Rachel Levy（PANK 杂志）
This fall, in the Chicago Reader, our Associate Editor Jamie Yates praised this story (from PANK Magazine) as a story that straddles the line between “the realistic and the mythical” and derives strength from each.
今年秋天，在《芝加哥读物》中，我们的副主编杰米·耶茨（Jamie Yates）称赞这个故事（来自《PANK》杂志）是一个跨越“现实与神话”之间界限的故事，并从两者中汲取力量。
You could also say it does the same with the line between the human and the animal.
你也可以说，人类和动物之间的界线也是如此。
All this line-crossing makes the story into a kind of tangled skein, humming with tension.
所有这些线索的交叉让故事变得一团乱麻，充满了紧张感。
Taut, terse, and eerie: the best of a certain kind of experimental work.
紧张、简洁、怪异：某种实验作品中最好的。
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We also featured tons of good stuff this year that didn’t make its first appearance in 2011, so if you’re looking for more good fiction from the past, check out our Instafiction “Editor’s Picks” tag.
今年我们还推出了大量 2011 年未首次出现的好作品，因此，如果您正在寻找更多过去的好小说，请查看我们的 Instafiction“编辑精选”标签。
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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。