The New Yorker's Nicholas Thompson: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011
Nicholas Thompson is a senior editor at The New Yorker and a frequent Longreader.
尼古拉斯·汤普森 (Nicholas Thompson) 是《纽约客》的高级编辑，也是一名长期读者。
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I’m a sucker for stories about reinvention, disappearence, and people who pretend to be someone they aren’t.
我很喜欢关于重塑、消失和假装他人的故事。
The genre has cliches, and can become trite.
这种类型有陈词滥调，并且可能变得陈词滥调。
But it can also be wonderful.
但它也可以是美妙的。
And this year, the category brought us some wonderful longreads.
今年，该类别为我们带来了一些精彩的长读作品。
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“Where’s Earl?” Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker
“厄尔在哪儿？”凯勒法·桑内 (Kelefa Sanneh)，《纽约客》
I’m biased, but the story by Kelefa Sanneh in The New Yorker about the rapper Earl Sweatshirt is, I think, a classic.
我有偏见，但我认为《纽约客》中凯勒法·桑尼（Kelefa Sanneh）关于说唱歌手伯爵运动衫的故事是一个经典。
The character Earl is the reinvention of another boy, whose amazing past and origins Sanneh describes.
厄尔这个角色是另一个男孩的翻版，桑尼描述了他惊人的过去和起源。
But then there’s the second disappearence of Earl himself, and then his quandry about whether and how to return to his career.
但厄尔本人第二次失踪，然后他对是否以及如何重返职业生涯感到困惑。
Sanneh is also, stylistically, one of the most original and graceful writers around.
从风格上来说，桑尼也是最具原创性、最优雅的作家之一。
Every sentence is a pleasure.
每一句话都是一种享受。
“His Own Private Idaho,” Sean Flynn, GQ
《他自己的私人爱达荷》，肖恩·弗林，《GQ》
This piece by Flynn about a mobster who reinvents himself in Idaho, seems familiar at first.
弗林的这篇作品讲述了一个在爱达荷州重塑自我的黑帮，乍一看似乎很熟悉。
But then it turns out the central character is much more complex than you might have thought—and he ends up undone by something surprising and redemptive.
但事实证明，中心人物比你想象的要复杂得多——他最终被一些令人惊讶和救赎的事情毁掉了。
It’s great.
这很棒。
“My Mother’s Lover,” David Dobbs, The Atavist ($1.99)
《我母亲的情人》，大卫·多布斯，《返祖者》（1.99 美元）
I’m biased on this one too (I’m a co-founder of The Atavist), but Dobbs’s piece has deservedly been one of the best-selling “e-singles” of the year.
我也对这首歌曲有偏见（我是 The Atavist 的联合创始人），但多布斯的作品当之无愧地成为今年最畅销的“电子单曲”之一。
It’s an amazing tale of a man discovering that his mother harbored a secret her entire adult life.
这是一个令人惊奇的故事，讲述了一个男人发现他的母亲在整个成年生活中都隐藏着一个秘密。
And then, as Dobbs tries to resolve a mystery of his own family’s past, he gets tangled in the story of another’s.
然后，当多布斯试图解开自己家族过去的一个谜团时，他陷入了另一个家族的故事之中。
“Dave Sanders: Fiber-Optics Exec by Day, Defender of Justice by Night”, Joshua Davis, Wired
“戴夫·桑德斯：白天的光纤高管，夜间的正义捍卫者”，约书亚·戴维斯，《连线》
Joshua Davis is one of the most cinematic magazine writers around; he’s wonderful at introducing groups of characters, crafting scenes, and keeping a narrative moving.
约书亚·戴维斯 (Joshua Davis) 是最具电影感的杂志作家之一。他非常擅长介绍人物群体、精心设计场景以及保持叙事的动人。
This recent piece in Wired about a fiber-optics-executive who recreates himself as a (sort-of) good-guy vigilante is a classic.
《连线》杂志最近发表的这篇文章是一篇经典文章，讲述了一位光纤高管将自己塑造成一个（有点）好人义务警员的故事。
It’s complicated, but Davis tells the story smoothly and smartly.
这很复杂，但戴维斯流畅而聪明地讲述了这个故事。
“The Incredible Case of the P.I.
“P.I. 的不可思议的案例。
Moms,” Joshuah Bearman, This American Life
妈妈们”，约书亚·贝尔曼，《美国生活》
I know this is a long “reads” list, but the lines with long “listens” are blurry, and there was a story this fall on This American Life of this type that I just loved: Joshuah Bearman’s “The Incredible Case of the P.I.
我知道这是一个很长的“读”列表，但是长“听”的台词是模糊的，今年秋天，《美国生活》上有一个我很喜欢的此类故事：约书亚·贝尔曼（Joshua Bearman）的“P.I.的不可思议的案件”。
Moms.” Like many of the other best stories in this genre, it takes, layer by layer, through a complicated series of reinventions and disguises.
妈妈们。”与该类型中的许多其他最佳故事一样，它需要一层一层地经历一系列复杂的重塑和伪装。
Plus it mixes in reality television, a mole, and an heroic journalist.
此外，它还融入了电视真人秀、一名内奸和一名英雄记者。
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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。