My Top Ten #longform reads of 2011

Top Ten:

1. Post-Artifact Books and Publishing by Craig Mod
2. Farther Away: Robinson Crusoe, David Foster Wallace and the island of solitude by Jonathan Franzen
3. In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a new kind of authorship by Maria Papova
4. Why I Call Myself a Socialist: Is the world really a stage? by Wallace Shawn
5. The Grass is Closed: What I Have Learned About Power from the Police, Chancellor Birgeneau, and Occupy Cal by Aaron Bady
6. Punched Out: The life and death of a hockey enforcer by John Branch
7. Mark Twain in Love by Ron Powers
8. The Race That Is Not About Winning: We need a certain kind of teenage antihero to remind us we are not alone by Mark Oppenheimer
9. Dog Story: How did the dog become our master? by Adam Gropnik
10. Bad Education by Malcom Harris

Honorable Mention:

• Know Thyself, Blog Thyself: Socrates and the Internet by Claire Creffield
• Innovation Starvation by Neal Stephenson
• Is there a new geek anti-intellectualism? by Larry Sanger
• Trial of Will by Christopher Hitchens
• Is It Natural for Older Guys to Lust After Young Women? by Hugo Schwyzer