Longreads Best of 2012: Emily M. Keeler
Emily M.
艾米丽·M。
Keeler is a writer and the founding editor of Little Brother Magazine.
基勒是一位作家，也是《小兄弟》杂志的创始编辑。
Best Pair of Essays on Loneliness
关于孤独的最佳散文
Emily Cooke, “The Lonely Ones” – The New Inquiry
艾米丽·库克《孤独者》——新调查
Susan Sontag is a force that continues to be reckoned with, and the publication of her second volume of journals this year occasioned this incredible piece.
苏珊·桑塔格（Susan Sontag）是一股不可忽视的力量，今年她第二卷期刊的出版催生了这篇令人难以置信的作品。
I think I’ve re-read this essay three or four times now, and I just keep coming back for more.
我想我现在已经把这篇文章重读了三四遍，而且我还会不断地回来阅读更多内容。
Sonya Chung, “On Loneliness” – The Millions
索尼娅·钟，《论孤独》——《百万人》
Tacking a different walk down the same path, Chung looks to DFW’s adage about being a fucking human being and unpacks it until all that’s left is that intense feeling of being alone, but together.
钟沿着同一条路走了一条不同的路，他引用了 DFW 关于成为一个他妈的人类的格言，并将其解开，直到只剩下那种强烈的孤独感，但又在一起。
The problems of how to be alone and how to be with others are not new, but at the same time both Chung and Cooke cast reassuring lights onto this well worn and sort of depressing path.
如何独处以及如何与他人相处的问题并不新鲜，但与此同时，钟和库克都为这条破旧且令人沮丧的道路投下了令人安心的光芒。
Would’ve been a contender in this category, but for it being six years too early: Sheila Heti’s 2006 Trampoline Hall talk, “Why Go Out.”
本来是这一类别的竞争者，但因为它太早了六年：希拉·赫蒂 (Sheila Heti) 2006 年在蹦床厅的演讲“Why Go Out”。
Best Essay on the Museum of Innocence
关于纯真博物馆的最佳散文
Elif Batuman, “Pamuk’s Museum” – London Review of Books
Elif Batuman，“帕慕克博物馆”——伦敦书评
Batuman has a bit of a magic touch in her ability to put you right on the scene, and she generously seems to fill your head with her knowledge and enthusiasm beforehand.
巴图曼有一种神奇的能力，能让你身临其境，而且她似乎事先就慷慨地让你的头脑充满了她的知识和热情。
For a diary entry, it’s surprising how quickly Batuman comes to seem just slightly out of frame, revealing instead the mysterious world of Orhan Pamuk’s strange, physically embodied and built literature.
对于一篇日记来说，令人惊讶的是，巴图曼很快就显得有点脱离框架，反而揭示了奥尔罕·帕慕克奇怪的、身体体现和构建的文学的神秘世界。
Best Pair of Bookish Essays on Pornography
最好的一对关于色情的书卷气散文
Josh Lambert, “James Deen vs. the Nebbishes” – Los Angeles Review of Books
乔什·兰伯特，《詹姆斯·迪恩 vs. 内比什》——《洛杉矶书评》
It seems as though 2012 could’ve been called the year of James Deen.
2012 年似乎可以称为詹姆斯·迪恩年。
The charming porn star received so much media attention, and was the cause of so much hand-wringing this year, that for a time it seemed like he and his widely beloved penis were all anyone could talk about.
这位迷人的色情明星受到了媒体的广泛关注，今年也引起了很多人的不满，以至于有一段时间，他和他广受喜爱的阴茎似乎是每个人都可以谈论的话题。
Or maybe that was just my particular Twitter feed.
或者也许这只是我特定的 Twitter 消息。
Anyhow, this LARB piece was my favorite of the ones I read about Deen.
不管怎样，这篇 LARB 的文章是我读到的关于迪恩的文章中我最喜欢的。
Avi Steinberg, “Checking Out” – The Paris Review Daily
阿维·斯坦伯格，《结账》——《巴黎评论日报》
Steinberg is a perpetual favorite of mine, in part because of the offbeat and unexamined subjects he chooses to write about, but mostly because of his thoughtful and good humored sensibility.
斯坦伯格是我永远的最爱，部分原因是他选择写的另类和未经审视的主题，但主要是因为他深思熟虑且幽默的情感。
On the topic of the relationships between librarians and pornography, he is simply without parallel.
在图书馆员与色情作品的关系这个话题上，他简直无可比拟。
Who else could trace pretty much everything great in this world back to pornos?
还有谁能将这个世界上所有伟大的事情都追溯到色情片呢？
From who else would I be able to take a question like “What was the relationship between these library fuckers and what I had been reading?” completely on its face?
我还能从谁那里提出这样的问题：“这些图书馆混蛋和我一直在读的东西之间有什么关系？”完全在它的脸上？
Best Profile of Jay-Z
Jay-Z 的最佳简介
Zadie Smith, “The House that Hova Built” – New York Times T Magazine
扎迪·史密斯，“霍瓦建造的房子”——纽约时报 T 杂志
Duh.
呃。
One of Smith’s many gifts is her ear, and it was thrilling to see one of my favorite language manipulators enraptured fannishly before another dextrous word slinger.
史密斯的众多天赋之一就是她的耳朵，看到我最喜欢的语言操纵者之一在另一个灵巧的词语投掷者面前欣喜若狂，真是令人兴奋。
Most Likely To Lead You Down a Penn and Teller YouTube Rabbit Hole
最有可能让你陷入 Penn and Teller YouTube 兔子洞
Chris Jones, “The Honor System” – Esquire
克里斯·琼斯，《荣誉系统》——Esquire
Seriously, this Chris Jones story radically altered the texture of my life; for weeks afterward I became obsessed by magic.
说真的，克里斯·琼斯的这个故事从根本上改变了我的生活。几周后我开始沉迷于魔法。
I watched at least one episode of Penn and Teller’s Fool Us per night, but usually more than one.
我每晚至少观看一集佩恩和泰勒的《愚弄我们》，但通常不止一集。
I sacrificed a thing I tend to hold pretty sacred (my sleep) in order to feed a hunger I haven’t felt since I was child.
我牺牲了我认为非常神圣的东西（我的睡眠），以满足我从小到大都没有感受到的饥饿感。
This story made me ravenous for real magic, for showmanship, for being told the right kind of lies.
这个故事让我渴望真正的魔法，渴望表演技巧，渴望被告知正确的谎言。
The key to the joy of this story is, I think, in how Jones refuses to give away any of his or Teller’s tricks and instead zeroes in on the delight that the magician imparts on his audience—how pleasurable it is to revel in our own foolishness, for a change, to feel that ticklish sense of wonder.
我认为，这个故事的欢乐之处在于，琼斯拒绝泄露他或泰勒的任何魔术，而是专注于魔术师给观众带来的快乐——陶醉在我们自己的愚蠢中，换个方式，感受那种令人痒痒的惊奇感，是多么令人愉快。
Read more guest picks from Longreads Best of 2012
阅读 Longreads 2012 年度最佳嘉宾精选