Nieman Storyboard's Andrea Pitzer: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011
Andrea Pitzer (@andreapitzer) is the founder of Nieman Storyboard.
Andrea Pitzer (@andreapitzer) 是 Nieman Storyboard 的创始人。
She is also writing what she hopes will be a very surprising book about Vladimir Nabokov.
她还在写一本关于弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫的书，她希望这会是一本非常令人惊讶的书。
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I’m contrary by nature.
我本质上是相反的。
So when I sat down to pick my Longreads for 2011, I reviewed the lists that Mark had published to date and decided not to include a single story that had already been chosen.
因此，当我坐下来挑选 2011 年的长读作品时，我回顾了马克迄今为止发布的列表，并决定不包括任何已经选择的故事。
Which meant some obvious candidates were off the table from the beginning: no Lawrence Wright on Scientology, no Keith Gessen on Kazakhstan.
这意味着一些明显的候选人从一开始就被排除在外：山达基派没有劳伦斯·赖特，哈萨克斯坦没有基思·格森。
No Allie Broshie.
没有艾莉·布罗西。
No John Jeremiah Sullivan.
没有约翰·杰里米·沙利文。
But see for yourself—the following pieces shine just as brightly.
但请亲眼看看——以下作品同样闪耀。
“The People v.
“人民诉。
Football” by Jeanne Marie Laskas for GQ
珍妮·玛丽·拉斯卡斯 (Jeanne Marie Laskas) 为《GQ》拍摄的《足球》
Autopsies on the brains of hockey and football players have been making big news lately.
最近，对曲棍球和足球运动员大脑的尸检成为了大新闻。
But here, Laskas checks in on the life of a former NFL linebacker to see what it’s like for mentally-impaired players who are still alive.
但在这里，拉斯卡斯调查了一位前 NFL 线卫的生活，看看仍然活着的精神障碍球员的生活。
Welcome to Dementia—it’s a funny, terrifying place.
欢迎来到痴呆症——这是一个有趣又可怕的地方。
“Watching the Murder of an Innocent Man” by Barry Bearak for the New York Times
《纽约时报》的巴里·比拉克（Barry Bearak）的“观看无辜者被谋杀”
A vigilante murder launches this story, and the reporter’s investigation of it spirals into a tale of cowardice and cruelty.
一起私刑谋杀案引发了这个故事，记者对此的调查逐渐演变成一个关于懦弱和残忍的故事。
“He was a wayward teenager, a bad boy wanting to become a worse boy,” Bearak writes of one character, plunging into everything that follows.
“他是一个任性的青少年，一个想成为一个更糟糕的男孩的坏男孩，”贝拉克在描述一个角色时写道，并陷入了接下来的一切。
Race, xenophobia, money, and history make themselves felt in a way that never dulls the humanity—beautiful or horrifying—of the people Bearak portrays.
种族、仇外心理、金钱和历史都以一种永远不会削弱贝拉克所描绘的人性的方式——美丽或可怕的人性。
“Taste Has Never Met Shame: I Love You, Conor Oberst!” by Ben Dolnick for the Awl
“品味从未遭遇羞耻：我爱你，康纳·奥伯斯特！” Ben Dolnick 为 Awl 创作
One of the biggest joys of running a music store in Washington, DC, during my college years was that my co-workers were gloriously unembarrassed.
在我大学期间，在华盛顿特区经营一家音乐商店的最大乐趣之一就是我的同事们非常不尴尬。
Want to groove to Pet Shop Boys and Black Flag?
想欣赏 Pet Shop Boys 和 Black Flag 的音乐吗？
No problem.
没问题。
Asking for that promo copy of A Tribe Called Quest to take home with the k.d.
要求将《A Tribe Called Quest》的宣传片与 k.d. 一起带回家。
lang you bought today?
今天你买了郎吗？
Go for it.
大胆试试吧。
I had a saying then: “You love what you love,” which is insipid.
我当时有句话说：“你爱你所爱的”，这句话很平淡。
But this article is what I meant.
但这篇文章就是我的意思。
So short it has to stand on tiptoe to be a Longreads, Dolnick’s piece contains perhaps the most honest sentence ever written by a critic: “Taste doesn’t work for reason; reason is a skinny underpaid clerk in the office of taste.”
多尔尼克的文章如此短，必须踮起脚尖才能成为长篇读物，它可能包含了评论家写过的最诚实的一句话：“品味不会因理性而发挥作用；理性是品味办公室里一个骨瘦如柴、薪水过低的职员。”
“It’s a Bird!
“这是一只鸟！
It’s a Plane!
这是一架飞机！
It’s…Some Dude?!” by Jon Ronson for GQ
这是……某个家伙？！”乔恩·罗森 (Jon Ronson) 为《GQ》撰稿
Ronson motors along, encouraging you to snicker at a cavalcade of real-world wannabe superheroes headed up by Seattle’s Phoenix Jones.
罗森一路开着车，鼓励你嘲笑以西雅图的菲尼克斯·琼斯为首的一队现实世界中的超级英雄。
Then the story takes a hairpin turn, and you can’t imagine what happens next.
然后故事急转直下，你无法想象接下来会发生什么。
“A Brevard Woman Disappeared But Never Left Home” by Michael Kruse for the St. Petersburg Times
迈克尔·克鲁斯 (Michael Kruse) 为《圣彼得堡时报》撰写的《一名布里瓦德妇女失踪但从未离开过家》
What if you died alone and miserable, and no one even noticed?
如果你孤独而悲惨地死去，而没有人注意到怎么办？
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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。