Longreads Best of 2012: Doree Shafrir
Doree Shafrir is the Executive Editor of BuzzFeed.
Doree Shafrir 是 BuzzFeed 的执行编辑。
Her story, “Can You Die from a Nightmare?” was featured on Longreads in September.
她的故事“你会死于噩梦吗？”九月份在 Longreads 上发表过专题。
This year I read a lot of great personal essays, but these were my favorites.
今年我读了很多很棒的个人文章，但这些是我最喜欢的。
Meaghan O’Connell, “Places I’ve Lived: A Nanny’s Room, the Perfect Sublet, and a Place You Can Instagram,” The Billfold
梅根·奥康奈尔 (Meaghan O’Connell)，“我住过的地方：保姆的房间、完美的转租空间以及可以在 Instagram 上发布的地方”，The Billfold
The story of young people moving to New York and learning how to navigate the city, particularly its real estate, will never get old, but it’s hard to do well/without sounding like you’re trying to mimic Joan Didion.
年轻人搬到纽约并学习如何驾驭这座城市，尤其是它的房地产的故事永远不会过时，但很难做得好/不听起来像是你在试图模仿琼·迪迪恩。
I loved Meaghan’s piece because it was so perfectly of its time and place, and yet managed to capture the timelessness of feeling that, for the very first time, you’re really on your own in a city that doesn’t give much of a shit.
我喜欢梅根的作品，因为它非常完美地体现了它的时间和地点，但又成功地捕捉到了永恒的感觉，第一次，你真正独自生活在一个不在乎的城市里。
Lena Dunham, “Seeing Nora Everywhere,” The New Yorker
莉娜邓纳姆，“到处都看到诺拉”，《纽约客》
No one could quite believe it when Nora Ephron died, partly because she’d concealed her illness from all but her closest friends and family, but also because she was the premiere chronicler of love and relationships and making it as a woman, and if she was gone, what did that mean for the rest of us?
当诺拉·艾芙隆去世时，没有人完全相信这一点，部分原因是她除了最亲密的朋友和家人之外，向所有人隐瞒了自己的病情，而且还因为她是爱情和人际关系的首要记录者，并以女性的身份记录了这一切，如果她去世了，这对我们其他人意味着什么？
There were lots of tributes to Nora Ephron, but Lena Dunham’s resonated the most with me, because she portrayed so beautifully Nora’s brilliance, her empathy and her wit.
有很多人向诺拉·艾芙隆致敬，但莉娜·邓纳姆的作品最引起我的共鸣，因为她如此美丽地描绘了诺拉的才华、同理心和智慧。
Amity Bitzel, “My Parents Adopted a Murderer,” xoJane
阿米蒂·比泽尔，《我的父母收养了一个杀人犯》，xoJane
The particulars of the story were so outlandish that it almost seemed impossible for someone to write about it eloquently, but Amity Bitzel’s essay about her parents adopting a young man who had murdered his parents, and what it was like for her as a 13-year-old, managed to be affecting and beautiful, and maybe most amazingly, not sensationalistic.
这个故事的细节是如此离奇，以至于几乎不可能有人能雄辩地写出它，但阿米蒂·比泽尔的文章讲述了她的父母收养了一个谋杀了父母的年轻人，以及她 13 岁的经历，成功地感人而美丽，也许最令人惊讶的是，它不是耸人听闻的。
Emily Gould, “Laughing and Crying”, Emily Magazine
艾米丽·古尔德，“笑与哭”，艾米丽杂志
Emily is so, so good at talking about those feelings that you’d really rather not admit you felt, much less put on the internet, and she is also really good at being funny about it and making bigger points about success and jealousy and autobiography.
艾米丽非常非常擅长谈论那些你真的不愿意承认自己感受到的感受，更不用说把它们放在互联网上，而且她也非常擅长对此进行有趣，并对成功、嫉妒和自传提出更大的观点。
She writes in this piece, which is also about “ladyblogs” and a visit to PS1, “I have made so many decisions based on my desire to never seem publicly weak or vulnerable,” and that seemed like just about the most perfect articulation of human behavior I’d ever read.
她在这篇关于“女士博客”和访问 PS1 的文章中写道，“我做出了很多决定，因为我不想在公众面前显得软弱或脆弱”，这似乎是我读过的对人类行为最完美的表述。
Read more guest picks from Longreads Best of 2012.
阅读 Longreads 2012 年度最佳嘉宾精选。