The New Yorker: "Lenny Hearts Eunice" by Gary Shteyngart

This is an excerpt from Shteyngart's new novel, Super Sad True Love Story, due out in July. Not that the magazine is telling us this, but it is.
Lenny is keeping a diary, and he is apparently the last literate person on the planet. He reads books! He meets Eunice Park in Italy and falls in love with her, although she's nothing but disdainful toward him. When he returns to the US—he is the Life Lovers Outreach Coordinator of the Post-Human Services Division of Staatling-Wapachung...