Longreads Best of 2012: Esquire's Chris Jones
Chris Jones is a writer for Esquire and ESPN and the winner of two National Magazine Awards.
克里斯·琼斯 (Chris Jones) 是《Esquire》和《ESPN》的撰稿人，也是两项国家杂志奖的获得者。
Favorite new writer discovery of 2012
2012年最受喜爱的新锐作家
I’m always scared of making lists like this, because a year is a long time, and I read a lot, and invariably I’ll forget writers and pieces that I liked very much.
我总是害怕列出这样的清单，因为一年很长，我读了很多书，我总是会忘记我非常喜欢的作家和作品。
But this category is easy for me: Michael J.
但这个类别对我来说很容易：Michael J.
Mooney.
穆尼。
He wrote back-to-back stories for D Magazine this summer that are so different but the same in that they both knocked me on my ass.
今年夏天，他为 D 杂志连续写了一些故事，这些故事是如此不同，但相同之处在于它们都让我大吃一惊。
First he wrote about a brutal rape in “When Lois Pearson Started Fighting Back.” (It is a difficult read, but the ending is more than worth it.) And then he wrote the most amazing bowling story ever in “The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever.” Plus, he’s a straight-up good dude.
首先，他在《当洛伊丝·皮尔森开始反击时》中写到了一场残酷的强奸事件。 （这是一本很难读的书，但结局是值得的。）然后他在《有史以来最神奇的保龄球故事》中写下了有史以来最神奇的保龄球故事。另外，他是一个正直的好人。
Love this guy so much.
非常喜欢这个家伙。
Best election story
最佳选举故事
I’m going to seem like a homer here, but I don’t care: Charlie Pierce did journalism on Esquire.com during this entire election cycle that bordered on heroic—and I don’t use that word lightly.
我在这里会显得像个全垒打，但我不在乎：查理·皮尔斯在整个选举周期中在《Esquire.com》上做新闻报道，近乎英雄——我不会轻易使用这个词。
In its ideas, in its language, in its sheer volume, his account of this election, taken as a whole, is humbling and inspiring at the same time.
从整体来看，他对这次选举的描述，无论是在思想上、语言上还是篇幅上，都是令人谦卑的，同时也是鼓舞人心的。
Start with the end, “The Greatness of Barack Obama is Our Great Project” and go back from there.
从结尾“巴拉克·奥巴马的伟大是我们伟大的项目”开始，然后从那里返回。
Best personal blog post/essay
最佳个人博客文章/论文
I’m going to pick two stories here, both sports stories.
我要在这里挑选两个故事，都是体育故事。
Writers hate hearing athletes say, “You never played the game,” but it’s hard to deny that former athletes understand the games they played better than most of us do.
作家们讨厌听到运动员说“你从来没有玩过这项运动”，但很难否认前运动员比我们大多数人更了解他们所玩的游戏。
Just the other day, The Classical posted a meditation by former basketball player Flinder Boyd about Ricky Rubio, “The Ricky Rubio Experience.” I’m not sure I can say why, exactly, but I was really moved by this story.
就在前几天，《古典报》发布了前篮球运动员弗林德·博伊德对里基·卢比奥的沉思，“里基·卢比奥的经历”。我不确定我能确切地说出为什么，但我真的被这个故事感动了。
Some of The Classical guys can be snide little shits, far too Internet cool, but Boyd wrote with real heart here.
一些古典派的家伙可能是个冷嘲热讽的小混蛋，太网络酷了，但博伊德在这里写的是真心话。
I love this story.
我喜欢这个故事。
The second is by one of my most favorite friends, Kevin Van Valkenburg of ESPN.
第二个是我最喜欢的朋友之一，ESPN 的 Kevin Van Valkenburg 写的。
He wrote about the death of a semi-pro football player in a story called “Games of chance.” Kevin played college football at the University of Montana, and he writes beautifully about the pull of the game as well as the charge that comes from hitting and with being hit.
他在一篇名为“机会游戏”的故事中写到了一名半职业足球运动员的死亡。凯文 (Kevin) 在蒙大拿大学 (University of Montana) 打过大学橄榄球，他精彩地描述了比赛的吸引力以及击球和被击球时产生的冲力。
Sometimes the first person interrupts; here it informs.
有时第一人称会打断；在这里它通知。
Best crime story
最佳犯罪故事
I see the great David Grann has already picked this one, but I’ll echo his pick, because it was that good: Pamela Colloff’s “The Innocent Man” for Texas Monthly is an epic, immersive, amazing story.
我看到伟大的大卫·格兰恩已经选择了这个，但我会同意他的选择，因为它太好了：帕梅拉·科洛夫为《德克萨斯月刊》撰写的《无辜者》是一个史诗般的、身临其境的、令人惊叹的故事。
And full credit to the gang down in Austin for committing so completely to longform journalism.
奥斯汀的这帮人如此全身心地致力于长篇新闻报道，这要归功于他们。
That this story even exists makes me hopeful about so many things.
这个故事的存在让我对很多事情充满希望。
The story that made me feel the most awesome about just about everything
这个故事让我对一切都感到最棒
I’ve always been an optimist about writing, or at least I’ve always tried to be an optimist about writing, and 2012, for me, has been filled with reasons for optimism (like Pamela Colloff’s story above, which is really a multi-layered testament to the power of belief).
我一直对写作持乐观态度，或者至少我一直试图对写作持乐观态度，而2012年对我来说充满了乐观的理由（就像上面帕梅拉·科洛夫的故事，这确实是对信仰力量的多层次证明）。
Yes, this business remains in flux, and yes, many good writers continue to put more love into their writing than their writing returns to them.
是的，这个行业仍在不断变化，是的，许多优秀的作家继续在写作中投入更多的爱，而不是写作给他们带来的回报。
But I still feel like we live in a golden age, filled with possibility.
但我仍然觉得我们生活在一个黄金时代，充满了可能性。
One of the stories that most made me feel that way—both because of the story itself, and because of its subject—was “How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big-Budget Flick” by Jason Fagone in Wired.
最让我有这种感觉的故事之一——既因为故事本身，也因为它的主题——是《连线》杂志杰森·法戈恩的《一个对 Reddit 查询的回应如何成为一部大预算电影》。
The title describes the tale exactly, and it’s just as improbable and fun and crazy as it sounds.
标题准确地描述了这个故事，它就像听起来一样不可思议、有趣和疯狂。
I feel like this story sums up the modern writing business as well as any: There’s still plenty of lightning out there, and there are still lots of bottles, and every now and then, someone still catches one with the other.
我觉得这个故事概括了现代写作行业以及其他任何行业：外面仍然有很多闪电，仍然有很多瓶子，时不时地，有人仍然会接住另一个。
Read more guest picks from Longreads Best of 2012.
阅读 Longreads 2012 年度最佳嘉宾精选。