Mike Dang: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011
Mike Dang is editor of Bundle and managing editor for Longreads.
Mike Dang 是 Bundle 的编辑和 Longreads 的总编辑。
See his longreads page here.
在这里查看他的长读页面。
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I’ve read a lot of great longreads this year, but I know that a longread is truly special when I become its biggest cheerleader.
今年我读了很多很棒的长读物，但当我成为长读物最大的啦啦队长时，我知道长读物真的很特别。
I’ll casually slip the story into conversations, teasing out some of its best bits to wheedle the person into reading it later on his or her own.
我会随意地将故事融入对话中，挑出一些最好的片段，以哄骗人们稍后自己阅读。
Here are five of those stories:
以下是其中的五个故事：
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“Windeye.” Brian Evenson, PEN America
“风眼。”布莱恩·埃文森 (Brian Evenson)，美国笔会
Although this story wasn’t published in 2011, it was one of my favorites from the 2011 Pen/O.
虽然这个故事没有在 2011 年发表，但它是 2011 年 Pen/O 中我最喜欢的故事之一。
Henry Prize winners published in an anthology earlier this spring.
亨利奖得主今年春天早些时候出版了一本选集。
The set up is terrific:
设定很棒：
“Something wrong with the window,” he said.
“窗户有问题，”他说。
“Or not the window exactly but the number of windows.” She was smiling, waiting.
“或者确切地说不是窗户，而是窗户的数量。”她微笑着，等待着。
“The problem is the number of windows.
“问题在于窗户的数量。
There’s one more window on the outside than on the inside.” He covered his mouth with his hand.
外面比里面多一扇窗户。”他用手捂住了嘴。
“Chat History.” Rebecca Armendariz, GOOD
“聊天记录。”丽贝卡·阿门达里斯，好
Most of our casual conversations occur over e-mail threads or instant messenger, rather than the telephone.
我们大多数的休闲对话都是通过电子邮件或即时通讯工具进行的，而不是通过电话。
This happens so frequently that we rarely go back to read those threads and chats.
这种情况发生得如此频繁，以至于我们很少回去阅读这些帖子和聊天记录。
In this heartbreaking longread, a woman remembers a relationship through a series of chats archived in her Gmail inbox.
在这本令人心碎的长篇读物中，一位女士通过 Gmail 收件箱中存档的一系列聊天记录回忆起一段关系。
It compelled me to go through my own archives.
它迫使我查阅自己的档案。
“Getting Bin Laden,” Nicholas Schmidle, The New Yorker
“抓捕本·拉登”，尼古拉斯·施密德尔，《纽约客》
Already on many people’s Top 5 lists, this is one of the most exciting stories I’ve read.
这是我读过的最激动人心的故事之一，已经出现在许多人的前 5 名故事名单上。
Schmidle was able to make you feel like you are with the 23 Navy SEALs who were on the ground in Abbottabad the night we got Bin Laden, even though he was only able to piece the story together by interviewing a number of people directly involved in the raid.
施密德让你感觉自己就像是在我们抓住本·拉登的那天晚上，在阿伯塔巴德的 23 名海豹突击队队员一样，尽管他只能通过采访一些直接参与突袭的人来拼凑出整个故事。
I love how he focused on all the minute details — including a bit where the White House ordered sandwich platters from Costco before turning the Situation Room into a war room.
我喜欢他对所有细节的关注——包括白宫在把战情室变成作战室之前从好市多订购三明治拼盘的地方。
“When Irish Eyes Are Crying.” Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair
“当爱尔兰人的眼睛在哭泣时。”迈克尔·刘易斯，《名利场》
I write about money for a living, so I read everything about the financial crisis.
我以撰写有关金钱的文章为生，所以我阅读了有关金融危机的所有内容。
Michael Lewis is one of the best financial journalists of our time, and he has pointed out time and again how terrible countries and its people can be with money (the U.S. in “The Big Short,” Iceland in a V.F.
迈克尔·刘易斯是我们这个时代最优秀的财经记者之一，他一次又一次地指出，国家及其人民在金钱方面是多么可怕（《大空头》中的美国、V.F. 中的冰岛）。
longread published in April 2009, and Greece in a V.F.
longread 于 2009 年 4 月出版，希腊在 V.F.
longread published in Oct.
长读于 10 月出版
2010).
2010）。
Lewis continues his “financial disaster tourism” with Ireland this year, and, once again, leaves us shaking our heads.
刘易斯今年继续他在爱尔兰的“金融灾难旅游”，再次让我们摇头。
“Mister Lytle: An Essay.” John Jeremiah Sullivan, Paris Review
“莱特尔先生：一篇文章。”约翰·耶利米·沙利文，《巴黎评论》
I know.
我知道。
JJS is clearly the Ryan Gosling of longreads this year.
JJS 显然是今年长读作品中的瑞恩·高斯林 (Ryan Gosling)。
This essay was published last fall, but I didn’t get a chance to read it until I picked up Sullivan’s collections of essays, Pulphead.
这篇文章是去年秋天发表的，但直到我拿起沙利文的散文集《Pulphead》后，我才有机会阅读它。
Sullivan recalls a time when he served as a houseboy for Andrew Lytle, a revered Southern author.
沙利文回忆起他曾为受人尊敬的南方作家安德鲁·莱特尔（Andrew Lytle）当男仆的经历。
The way Sullivan unfolds his story is just: magical.
沙利文讲述他的故事的方式就是：神奇。
Other readers agree — the essay won a National Magazine Award in May.
其他读者也同意——这篇文章于五月获得了国家杂志奖。
Bonus:
奖金：
“The Fresh Air Interview: Jay-Z ‘Decoded.’” Terry Gross, Fresh Air
“新鲜空气采访：Jay-Z‘解码’。”特里·格罗斯，新鲜空气
The great thing about radio longreads — otherwise known as #audiofiles — is that producers get some poor intern to transcribe the entire broadcast so it doubles as a longread.
广播长读（也称为#audiofiles）的伟大之处在于，制作人会找一些可怜的实习生来转录整个广播，因此它可以兼作长读。
I love the part where Terry and Jay-Z discuss the story behind “99 Problems” — really just the idea that Terry sat down to listen to Jay-Z’s records for this interview is perfect.
我喜欢 Terry 和 Jay-Z 讨论“99 Problems”背后的故事的部分——实际上，Terry 坐下来听 Jay-Z 的采访唱片的想法就很完美。
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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。