Longreads Best of 2012: The New Yorker's David Grann

David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of The Lost City of Z and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes.

大卫·格兰 (David Grann) 是《纽约客》的特约撰稿人，也是《失落的 Z 城》和《魔鬼与夏洛克·福尔摩斯》的作者。

I am never sure how to choose the “best” story as there are too many.

我不确定如何选择“最好”的故事，因为太多了。

But here’s a list of some of the most notable and memorable stories I read in 2012.

但这里列出了我在 2012 年读过的一些最引人注目、最难忘的故事。

Pamela Colloff’s two-part series, “The Innocent Man,” which appeared in Texas Monthly, was one of the best crime stories—and, indeed, best pieces of journalism in any category—that I read.

帕梅拉·科洛夫（Pamela Colloff）的两部分系列作品《无辜者》（The Innocent Man）发表在《德克萨斯月刊》上，是我读过的最好的犯罪故事之一——事实上，也是任何类别中最好的新闻报道。

Many of my favorite longreads are works of history, and, in that category, I would include two notable pieces published in the magazine that I work for, The New Yorker: they are Robert A.

我最喜欢的许多长篇读物都是历史作品，在这一类别中，我会包括在我工作的《纽约客》杂志上发表的两篇著名文章：他们是罗伯特·A·

Caro’s “The Transition,” a book excerpt that details, through the eyes of Lyndon Johnson, the terrifying day of the assassination of John F.

卡罗的《过渡》是一本书的摘录，通过林登·约翰逊的视角详细描述了约翰·肯尼迪遇刺的可怕日子。

Kennedy; and Jill Lepore’s “The Lie Factory,” which chronicles the first political consulting firm in the United States, and helps explain everything that is rotten about our politics today.

肯尼迪；吉尔·莱波雷（Jill Lepore）的《谎言工厂》记录了美国第一家政治咨询公司的历史，有助于解释当今政治中的一切腐败现象。

Finally, I would include a category for the best longreads from the vault—those long ago published pieces that you suddenly discover or rediscover.

最后，我将包括一个来自金库的最佳长读物的类别——那些你突然发现或重新发现的很久以前出版的作品。

This year, I read two remarkable pieces in this category.

今年，我读了两篇此类的精彩文章。

One was James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son,” which originally appeared in Harper’s, in 1955; it’s the kind of essay that is almost no longer done, and that uses autobiography to tell the story of a nation.

其中一本是詹姆斯·鲍德温 (James Baldwin) 的《土生子笔记》(Notes of a Native Son)，最初发表于 1955 年的《哈泼斯》杂志 (Harper’s)；这种用自传来讲述一个国家故事的文章几乎已经不再有人写了。

The other old piece was David Foster Wallace’s “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart,” published in 1994, which begins as a predictable takedown review of Austin’s memoir and then becomes a totally unexpected meditation on the nature of athletic greatness and storytelling.

另一篇老作品是大卫·福斯特·华莱士 (David Foster Wallace) 于 1994 年出版的《特雷西·奥斯汀​​如何伤了我的心》(How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart)，它一开始是对奥斯汀回忆录的可预见的删除评论，然后变成了对运动伟大和讲故事本质的完全出乎意料的沉思。

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