Short-a-Day: Sam Lipsyte's "Deniers" by Aaron Riccio

Originally published in The New Yorker, May 2, 2011. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 80.A surprising, spry story about survivors: then and now. Mandy's father, a Holocaust survivor, opens the story with a bang: "Trauma this, atrocity that, people ought to keep their traps shut." You survived, in other words, by moving on and past it: denying, in a sense, what had been done to you. The more he dwells in the ve…

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