Writer David Hill: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011
David Hill writes Fading the Vig for McSweeney’s, writes about basketball for Negative Dunkalectics, writes sketch comedy for The Charlies, and starting next month will write a monthly column for Grantland.
大卫·希尔 (David Hill) 为 McSweeney’s 撰写《Fading the Vig》，为 Negative Dunkalectics 撰写有关篮球的文章，为 The Charlies 撰写喜剧小品，并从下个月开始为 Grantland 撰写每月专栏。
He is on Twitter at @davehill77.
他的推特账号为@davehill77。
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“Too Much Information,” John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQ
“信息太多”，约翰·耶利米·沙利文，《GQ》
John Jeremiah Sullivan wrote many notable things in 2011.
约翰·耶利米·沙利文 (John Jeremiah Sullivan) 在 2011 年写下了许多值得注意的事情。
I chose to highlight this review of The Pale King for two reasons.
我选择强调这篇对《苍白之王》的评论有两个原因。
First because everyone else has recommended the Disneyland story and the story about his house.
首先是因为其他人都推荐了迪士尼乐园的故事和他家的故事。
Second because it is actually a nice bit of writing and it is fascinating in the way that it hits home how much David Foster Wallace has left an impact on a generation of writers, John Jeremiah Sullivan included.
其次，因为这实际上是一篇很好的文章，而且它的迷人之处在于它深刻地揭示了大卫·福斯特·华莱士对包括约翰·耶利米·沙利文在内的一代作家的影响。
An impact that I think is perhaps both good and bad, but one that the jury will likely be out on for a long time.
我认为这种影响可能既有好处也有坏处，但对于这一影响，陪审团可能会在很长一段时间内没有定论。
“The Garden of Good and Evil,” Katie Baker, Grantland
《善恶花园》，凯蒂·贝克，格兰特兰
I have no idea if it is possible to love this piece as much as I do if you don’t love the Knicks.
我不知道如果你不喜欢尼克斯队，是否可以像我一样喜欢这件作品。
I mean really love the Knicks, as in cried after Game 5 of the 1999 NBA Finals love the Knicks.
我的意思是真的很爱尼克斯队，就像 1999 年 NBA 总决赛第五场比赛后哭着爱尼克斯队一样。
What I do know is that Katie Baker loves the Knicks the way I love the Knicks and this post mortem on this past season was, in my mind, a fitting and touching tribute to the team I invested far too much emotional energy and actual time this year.
我所知道的是，凯蒂·贝克爱尼克斯队就像我爱尼克斯队一样，在我看来，对上个赛季的事后剖析是对我今年投入了太多情感能量和实际时间的球队的恰当而感人的致敬。
“The Art of the Body Shot,” Chris Jones, Grantland
“身体射击的艺术”，克里斯·琼斯，格兰特兰
Chris Jones is the best writer in the game right now hands down.
克里斯·琼斯无疑是目前游戏中最好的作家。
Anything he writes is worthy of a list like this.
他写的任何东西都值得列入这样的清单。
This particular piece, however, is worth your time even if you aren’t much of a boxing fan.
然而，即使您不太喜欢拳击，这篇特别的文章也值得您花时间。
I read a lot of boxing writing this year—a lot.
今年我读了很多拳击文章——很多。
This was the single standout piece of writing on boxing I read all year.
这是我一整年读过的关于拳击的最出色的文章。
It made me feel like maybe boxing has life in it still yet, and if so perhaps writers like Chris Jones have more time to carry on a tradition of beautiful boxing prose that was handed to them by writers like James Baldwin and Norman Mailer.
这让我觉得也许拳击仍然有生命力，如果是这样的话，也许像克里斯·琼斯这样的作家有更多的时间来继承詹姆斯·鲍德温和诺曼·梅勒等作家传授给他们的优美拳击散文的传统。
If so I have no doubt that Chris Jones won’t let them down.
如果是这样，我毫不怀疑克里斯·琼斯不会让他们失望。
“In the Wake of Protest: One Woman’s Attempt to Unionize Amazon,” Vanessa Veselka, The Atlantic
“抗议之后：一名妇女试图组建亚马逊工会”，凡妮莎·韦塞尔卡，《大西洋月刊》
I can tell you from first-hand experience as a union organizer that this piece accurately captures the utter hopelessness, intense fear, and emotional overload that workers who try to organize unions in America today must deal with.
我可以从作为工会组织者的第一手经验告诉你，这篇文章准确地捕捉到了当今美国试图组织工会的工人们必须面对的彻底绝望、强烈恐惧和情绪超负荷。
This story was heartbreaking but also righteous and in the end I feel like she arrives at exactly the right conclusions.
这个故事令人心碎，但也很正义，最后我觉得她得出了完全正确的结论。
It isn’t just about how a generation of workers who are self-absorbed and overly concerned about their self expression are an obstacle to class consciousness.
这不仅仅是关于自我专注和过度关注自我表达的一代工人如何成为阶级意识的障碍。
It also makes the point that whether companies like Amazon are anti-union or not is irrelevant.
它还表明，像亚马逊这样的公司是否反工会并不重要。
Companies like Amazon that fight unions do so because they are essentially anti-worker and for me at least there is no nuance or complexity to it, it is just that simple.
像亚马逊这样反对工会的公司之所以这样做，是因为它们本质上是反工人的，至少对我来说，它没有任何细微差别或复杂性，就是这么简单。
“Manhattan in Middle Age,” Elizabeth Gumport, This Recording
“中世纪的曼哈顿”，伊丽莎白·冈波特，这张唱片
I discovered Elizabeth Gumport’s writing this year through a mutual friend and since have read everything she has written.
我今年通过一位共同的朋友发现了伊丽莎白·冈波特的作品，从那以后我读了她写的所有作品。
She’s a wonderfully talented writer and thinker who I hope to see even more from in 2012.
她是一位非常有才华的作家和思想家，我希望在 2012 年能看到她更多。
In this piece she looks at the life of Dawn Powell in New York City and talks about growing old in a city surrounded by the young.
在这篇文章中，她着眼于道恩·鲍威尔 (Dawn Powell) 在纽约的生活，并谈论了在一个被年轻人包围的城市中变老的故事。
It is a subject I’ve thought about and talked about a lot this year as I adjust to my life as a father and try to walk in two worlds at once—that of my youth and that of my future—all the while knowing that eventually I will have to step completely over into one at the expense of the other.
这是我今年思考和谈论很多的一个话题，因为我正在适应自己作为一名父亲的生活，并试图同时行走在两个世界——我的青春世界和我的未来世界——同时我也知道，最终我将不得不完全进入一个世界，而牺牲另一个世界。
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“The Day Never Ended,” Everyone, Free Darko
“这一天永无止境”，每个人，自由达科
Not really a longread but worth noting on this list of the best of 2011.
虽然不是很长的读物，但在这份 2011 年最佳榜单中值得注意。
This was the last post on Free Darko, a never-ending parade of goodbyes and thank yous and memories and glass-raising praise for the blog that was the inspiration for so many good things and the grandfather of so many great things yet to come.
这是 Free Darko 上的最后一篇文章，永无休止的告别、感谢、回忆和对博客的高度赞扬，它是许多美好事物的灵感来源，也是未来许多伟大事物的祖父。
How we write, how we write about sports, how we think about sports, the way we write and communicate and build community on the Internet—for myself and I’d guess many other people Free Darko made a singular transformational impact.
我们如何写作，我们如何写体育运动，我们如何思考体育运动，我们写作和交流以及在互联网上建立社区的方式——对于我自己和我猜想许多其他人来说，《自由达科》产生了独特的变革性影响。
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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。