The Awl's Choire Sicha, Carrie Frye, Alex Balk: Our Top Longreads of 2011
(Left to right: Choire, Carrie, Alex)
（从左到右：Choire、Carrie、Alex）
Because there are three of us, we trilaterally decided to go for 15.
因为我们是三个人，所以我们三方决定去15个。
But it’s not really five each; that becomes complicated, too, but…
但实际上并不是每人五个；这也变得复杂，但是……
well, anyway, no matter how you cut it, surely at least one of us hated some of these stories.
好吧，无论如何，无论你如何剪辑，肯定至少我们中的一个人讨厌其中的一些故事。
Also to be fair, this list, which is not in order, should really be called “The 15 Best Longreads That We Can Still Remember From 2011—What A Year, Am I Right, Oh Man, It’s December Somehow—After Extensive Googling and Mind-Nudging (Also Only Stories That We Didn’t Publish Ourselves, Because We Could Easily Cough Up 25 Longreads From Our Own Archives That Are Totally As Good Or Better And Also Have Better Gender Parity Probably But Anyway We Don’t Roll Self-Promotionally Like That).” FUN BONUS: Only three of the 15 best stories of the year (yes, sure, that we can remember) were in The New Yorker, so they are ranked in order.
公平地说，这份排名不分先后的清单实际上应该被称为“2011 年我们仍然记得的 15 篇最佳长读物——多么美好的一年，我对吗，天啊，不知怎的，现在是 12 月了——经过广泛的谷歌搜索和思想推动（也只有我们自己没有出版的故事，因为我们可以很容易地从我们自己的档案中找出 25 篇完全同样好或更好的长读物，而且还有可能会实现更好的性别平等，但无论如何我们不会那样自我推销）。”有趣的奖励：年度 15 篇最佳故事（是的，当然，我们记得）中只有 3 篇刊登在《纽约客》上，因此它们是按顺序排列的。
— Alex Balk, Carrie Frye, Choire Sicha of The Awl.
— Alex Balk、Carrie Frye、The Awl 合唱团 Sicha。
(See their #longreads archive here.)
（在这里查看他们的#longreads 存档。）
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• James Meek, “In the Sorting Office,” London Review of Books
• James Meek，“在分拣办公室”，《伦敦书评》
• Tess Lynch, “No Actor Parking,” n+1
• 苔丝·林奇，《禁止演员停车》，n+1
• David Roth, “Our Pizzas, Ourselves”
• David Roth，“我们的披萨，我们自己”
• Paul Ford, “The Web Is A Customer Service Medium”
• Paul Ford，“网络是客户服务媒介”
• Katie Baker, “The Confessions of a Former Adolescent Puck Tease,” Deadspin
• 凯蒂·贝克（Katie Baker），“前青少年冰球戏弄者的自白”，Deadspin
• Emily Gould, “Our Graffiti”
• 艾米丽·古尔德，《我们的涂鸦》
• Jim Santel, “Living Out the Day: The Moviegoer Turns Fifty,” The Millions
• 吉姆·桑特尔（Jim Santel），《活出这一天：电影观众五十岁了》，《百万》
• John Jeremiah Sullivan, A Rough Guide to Disney World, The New York Times Magazine
• John Jeremiah Sullivan，迪士尼世界粗略指南，纽约时报杂志
• Anna Holmes, “Spotlighting the work of women in the civil rights movement’s Freedom Rides,” Washington Post
• Anna Holmes，“在民权运动的自由之旅中关注女性的工作”，《华盛顿邮报》
• Michael Idov, “The Movie Set That Ate Itself,” GQ
• Michael Idov，“吞噬自己的电影场景”，GQ
• Evan Hughes, “Just Kids,” New York Magazine
• 埃文·休斯（Evan Hughes），《Just Kids》，《纽约杂志》
• Tim Dickinson, “How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich,” Rolling Stone
• Tim Dickinson，《共和党如何成为富人的政党》，滚石杂志
BONUS:
奖金：
The year’s three best New Yorker stories, in order:
年度《纽约客》最佳三篇故事（按顺序排列）：
3.
3.
Keith Gessen, “Nowheresville: How Kazakhstan is building a glittering new capital from scratch” (sub.
Keith Gessen，“Nowheresville：哈萨克斯坦如何从头开始建设一座闪闪发光的新首都”（sub.1）
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必填）
2.
2.
David Grann, “A Murder Foretold: Unravelling the ultimate political conspiracy”
大卫·格兰，《预言中的谋杀案：揭开最终的政治阴谋》
1.
1.
Kelefa Sanneh, “Where’s Earl?
Kelefa Sanneh，“厄尔在哪里？
Word from the missing prodigy of a hip-hop group on the rise” (sub.
来自正在崛起的嘻哈乐队失踪天才的消息”（sub.
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必填）
ACTUAL BONUS BONUS:
实际奖金：
Paul Collins’ “Vanishing Act” (Lapham’s Quarterly), about Barbara Newhall Follett, was published in the last twelve months, but on December 18, 2010, so to avoid the problem of the year-end list that’s published before the end of the year, ahem, we include it here honorarily.
保罗·柯林斯（Paul Collins）关于芭芭拉·纽荷尔·福利特（Barbara Newhall Follett）的《消失法案》（拉帕姆季刊）出版于过去十二个月，但出版日期为2010年12月18日，所以为了避免年终清单在年底前出版的问题，咳咳，我们荣誉地把它收录在这里。