New York Times Writer Jenna Wortham: My Top Longreads of 2011
Jenna Wortham is a technology reporter at The New York Times.
珍娜·沃瑟姆 (Jenna Wortham) 是《纽约时报》的科技记者。
In her spare time she makes zines and stalks former America’s Next Top Model contestants in Brooklyn.
业余时间，她制作杂志并跟踪布鲁克林的前美国超模新秀大赛参赛者。
She can be found on Twitter and Tumblr.
您可以在 Twitter 和 Tumblr 上找到她。
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SO many of my favorites have already been called out—Mindy Kaling’s “Flick Chicks,” Dan P.
我最喜欢的很多作品都已被提名——Mindy Kaling 的《Flick Chicks》、Dan P.
Lee’s “Travis the Menace” and John Jeremiah Sullivan’s everything, plus Doree flagged that amazing Kolker piece and Michelle laid claim to Paul Ford’s staggering essay on IVF.
李的《特拉维斯的威胁》和约翰·杰里米亚·沙利文的一切，再加上多莉标记了那篇令人惊叹的科克作品，米歇尔则声称拥有保罗·福特关于体外受精的令人震惊的文章。
But these are the stories that I sent to my Kindle and the links that recurred with the most frequency in my drafts/Gchats folders on Gmail, so I think it’s safe to say that they are my top picks of 2011.
但这些是我发送到 Kindle 的故事以及 Gmail 草稿/Gchats 文件夹中出现频率最高的链接，因此我认为可以肯定地说它们是我 2011 年的首选。
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• Ashlee Vance, “This Tech Bubble is Different.” (Businessweek, April 14, 2011)
• Ashlee Vance，“这个科技泡沫是不同的。” （商业周刊，2011 年 4 月 14 日）
A cutting, high-level look at the current boomlet in the tech biz—the kind that makes you kick yourself till the end for not being smart enough to have pitched it yourself.
对当前科技行业的繁荣进行了尖锐、高层次的审视——这种繁荣会让你因为自己不够聪明而自责到底。
Ashlee takes a step back from the funding frenzy, sky-high valuations and feverish IPO rumors to examine the current ad-think consuming the tech world.
阿什莉 (Ashlee) 从融资狂潮、天价估值和狂热的 IPO 传言中退一步，审视当前科技界的广告思维。
He asks, what if instead of focusing on getting people to click on ads, buy group coupons and digital goods for their virtual farms, our engineers and entrepreneurs were trying to solve big problems in health and science?
他问道，如果我们的工程师和企业家不再专注于让人们点击广告、购买团体优惠券和虚拟农场的数字商品，而是尝试解决健康和科学方面的重大问题，结果会怎样呢？
• Lev Grossman, “The Boy Who Lived Forever.” (Time, July 7, 2011)
• Lev Grossman，“永生的男孩”。 （时间2011年7月7日）
I adored this piece because it shed light on a very particular corner of the Web—fanfic—without falling into the clichéd trap of portraying the more obscure recesses of the Internet as a place only inhabited by cr33p3rs and neckbeards.
我喜欢这篇文章，因为它揭示了网络的一个非常特殊的角落——同人小说——而没有落入将互联网更隐蔽的角落描绘成只有 cr33p3rs 和颈胡子居住的地方的陈词滥调。
Instead, Lev lightly celebrates the creativity of the subculture and the communities and alternative realities people craft around their favorite characters and books.
相反，列夫轻松地庆祝了亚文化和社区的创造力，以及人们围绕他们最喜欢的角色和书籍打造的另类现实。
• Jessica Pressler, “A Holly Golightly for the Stripper-Embezzlement Age.” (New York Magazine, Sept 18, 2011)
• Jessica Pressler，“脱衣舞娘贪污时代的霍莉·戈莱特利”。 （纽约杂志，2011 年 9 月 18 日）
I couldn’t get enough of the vivid, and at times lurid, details in this profile of Diane Passage, Ken Starr’s fourth wife.
在这篇关于肯·斯塔尔第四任妻子黛安·帕萨奇的简介中，我对生动的、有时甚至是耸人听闻的细节百看不厌。
I mean, this phrase alone: “when she laughs, her grapefruit-tree physique bounces merrily,” hooked me, line and sinker.
我的意思是，单是这句话：“当她笑的时候，她柚子树般的体格就会快乐地弹跳”，让我、线和坠子都着迷了。
Plus who doesn’t love a sordid glimpse into an underbelly, especially one in New York?
另外，谁不喜欢瞥见肮脏的下腹，尤其是在纽约呢？
The sharp observations and imagery from the first few grafs make you feel like a fly on the wall of a party you didn’t want to go to in the first place but can’t wait to see how it all shakes out.
前几张照片中敏锐的观察和图像让你感觉自己就像是派对墙上的一只苍蝇，你本来不想参加，但又迫不及待地想看看这一切是如何发生的。
• David Kushner, “Murder by Text.” (Vanity Fair, November 27, 2011)
• 大卫·库什纳，《短信谋杀》。 （《名利场》，2011 年 11 月 27 日）
A heartbreaking read about the gruesome murder of a 18-year-old girl named Kim Proctor and the two teenaged boys who killed her and then bragged about it on World of Warcraft, which ultimately led to their arrest.
令人心碎的是，一名名叫金·普罗克特 (Kim Proctor) 的 18 岁女孩和两名十几岁的男孩被可怕谋杀，他们杀死了她，然后在《魔兽世界》上吹嘘此事，最终导致他们被捕。
Kusher smartly weaves the role of technology and the concept of (im)permanence online into the piece for a compelling narrative.
库舍尔巧妙地将技术的作用和在线（非）永久性的概念融入到作品中，以实现引人入胜的叙述。
• Jose Antonio Vargas, “My Life As an Undocumented Immigrant.” (The New York Times, June 22, 2011)
• Jose Antonio Vargas，“我作为无证移民的生活”。 （纽约时报，2011 年 6 月 22 日）
I thought this was one of the most important pieces published this year, along with “The Life of Illegal Immigrant Farmers,” for giving the touchy subject of immigration a living, breathing human face.
我认为这是今年出版的最重要的文章之一，与《非法移民农民的生活》并列，因为它为敏感的移民话题赋予了鲜活的、会呼吸的人性面孔。
I read this stunning graf at least a half dozen times:
我读了这篇令人惊叹的文章至少六遍：
“And that means living a different kind of reality.
“这意味着生活在一种不同的现实中。
It means going about my day in fear of being found out.
这意味着我每天都在担心被发现。
It means rarely trusting people, even those closest to me, with who I really am.
这意味着很少相信别人，甚至是那些最亲近的人，相信我的真实身份。
It means keeping my family photos in a shoebox rather than displaying them on shelves in my home, so friends don’t ask about them.
这意味着将我的家庭照片放在鞋盒中，而不是将它们展示在我家的架子上，这样朋友就不会询问它们。
It means reluctantly, even painfully, doing things I know are wrong and unlawful.
这意味着不情愿地，甚至痛苦地，做我知道是错误和非法的事情。
And it has meant relying on a sort of 21st-century underground railroad of supporters, people who took an interest in my future and took risks for me.”
这意味着要依赖一种 21 世纪的支持者地下铁路，这些支持者对我的未来感兴趣并为我承担风险。”
Honorable Mention:
荣誉提名：
While I was waiting for my copy of Sullivan’s Pulphead to be delivered, I stumbled across the work of Matt Bell, and immediately devoured two of his Kindle shorts—“A Tree or a Person or a Wall” and “A Long Walk, With Only Chalk to Mark the Way” and could not put them down.
当我在等待沙利文的纸浆头的副本交付时，我偶然发现了马特·贝尔的作品，并立即阅读了他的两篇 Kindle 短片——《一棵树、一个人或一堵墙》和《漫漫长路，只用粉笔标记道路》，爱不释手。
For such a stark, minimalist writer, his pieces are so evocative and rich with imagery that its hard not to be sucked into them almost immediately.
对于这样一位朴素、极简主义的作家来说，他的作品是如此令人回味和丰富的意象，以至于很难不立即被吸引。
I also thought that this year brought out some hilarious and clever writing that touched on the way we consume and use technology and how it’s shaping our interactions, culture and lives.
我还认为今年出现了一些搞笑而聪明的作品，涉及我们消费和使用技术的方式以及它如何塑造我们的互动、文化和生活。
Here’s a quick n’ dirty rundown of a few faves:
以下是一些最爱的快速总结：
• Katie Heaney, “Reading Between the Texts” (The Hairpin, June 16, 2011)
• Katie Heaney，“阅读文本之间的内容”（The Hairpin，2011 年 6 月 16 日）
• Leigh Alexander, “Five Emotions Invented By The Internet” (Thought
• Leigh Alexander，“互联网发明的五种情感”（思想
Catalog, January 12, 2011)
目录，2011 年 1 月 12 日）
• Frank Smith, “Will the Real Frank Smith Please Stand Up” (The Morning
• 弗兰克·史密斯，“真正的弗兰克·史密斯请站起来吗”（《早晨》
News, March 25, 2011)
新闻，2011 年 3 月 25 日）
• Clive Thompson, “On Secret Messages in the Digital Age” (Wired
• 克莱夫·汤普森（Clive Thompson），“论数字时代的秘密信息”（《连线》
magazine, Jan 31, 2011)
杂志，2011 年 1 月 31 日）
• Jonah Lehrer, “How Friends Ruin Memory: The Social Conformity Effect.”
• Jonah Lehrer，“朋友如何毁掉记忆：社会从众效应”。
(Wired.com, October 2011)
（Wired.com，2011 年 10 月）
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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。