Slate's Dan Kois: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011

Dan Kois is a senior editor at Slate and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine.

Dan Kois 是 Slate 的高级编辑，也是《纽约时报》杂志的特约撰稿人。

(See his Longreads page here.)

（请参阅此处的长读页面。）

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First of all, I am not even going to bother listing John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Disney World piece because it was obviously the best thing anywhere this year but everyone agrees and has read it anyway.

首先，我什至不打算列出约翰·杰里米·沙利文的迪士尼世界作品，因为它显然是今年最好的作品，但每个人都同意并且无论如何都读过它。

Here is the link just in case.

这是以防万一的链接。

But this doesn’t count as one of my five.

但这不算是我的五个之一。

• I thought “The Lost Yankee,” by Bill Pennington in the Times, was really quite extraordinary.

• 我认为《泰晤士报》上比尔·彭宁顿的《失落的洋基队》确实非常了不起。

The Yankees signed Japanese pitcher Kei Igawa in 2007 to a $46 million, 5-year contract.

洋基队于 2007 年与日本投手井川圭签下一份为期 5 年、价值 4600 万美元的合同。

Then they sent him to the minors after several disappointing outings, where he has pitched ever since, in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, cashing gigantic paychecks and setting minor league records.

在经历了几次令人失望的比赛后，他们把他送到了小联盟，从那以后他一直在斯克兰顿和威尔克斯巴里投球，兑现了巨额薪水并创造了小联盟的记录。

His contract just expired and I hope someone else gives him a chance.

他的合同刚刚到期，我希望其他人给他机会。

• My favorite book review of the year was Elaine Blair’s good-hearted, incredibly funny review of Nicholson Baker’s “House of Holes” in the New York Review of Books.

• 今年我最喜欢的书评是伊莱恩·布莱尔 (Elaine Blair) 在《纽约书评》上对尼克尔森·贝克 (Nicholson Baker) 的《破洞之屋》(House of Holes) 的善意且极其有趣的评论。

Best part: When she advises parents to just sneak a copy to their kids, and soon.

最精彩的部分：当她建议父母偷偷给孩子一本时，而且要尽快。

“You will have to make sure that they accidentally stumble on it soon, before they find the Internet, if they are to have a fighting chance at being wholesome and delightful fuckers instead of hopelessly depraved ones like yourself.”

“如果他们想有机会成为健康而令人愉快的混蛋，而不是像你这样无可救药的堕落者，你就必须确保他们在找到互联网之前很快就偶然发现了它。”

• I’m really happy that many outlets (like The A.V.

• 我真的很高兴有很多媒体（例如 The A.V.

Club, Vulture, and others) now publish long, in-depth interview transcripts, on the grounds that someone out there is interested in them.

Club、Vulture 等）现在发布了长而深入的采访记录，理由是有人对它们感兴趣。

I particularly loved this Q&A, on Ain’t It Cool News, with Steven Soderbergh, about Contagion but also about ten million other things, like his annoyance when other people’s movies go over budget.

我特别喜欢史蒂文·索德伯格在《Ain’t It Cool News》节目中的问答，内容涉及《传染病》，但也涉及一千万其他事情，比如当别人的电影超出预算时他的烦恼。

• Any music fan who missed it the first time around should be sure to read Chris Richards’ awesome WaPo story about trying to track down George Clinton’s lost Mothership in the woods of Prince George’s County.

• 第一次错过它的音乐迷一定要读一下克里斯·理查兹 (Chris Richards) 精彩的 WaPo 故事，讲述了如何在乔治王子县的树林里寻找乔治·克林顿 (George Clinton) 失踪的母舰的故事。

• And I’m pretty sure I did not laugh as long and as hard at anything anyone wrote this year as I did at “Dressing Up My Boyfriend As Marc Anthony In His Terrible Kohl’s Clothes,” by Sarah Miller, in The Awl.

• 我很确定今年我不会像在莎拉·米勒 (Sarah Miller) 在《锥子》(The Awl) 杂志上写的《把我的男朋友打扮成马克·安东尼 (Marc Anthony) 那样，穿着他糟糕的科尔士服装》时那样，对别人写的任何东西笑得那么久、那么厉害。