In Gary Shteyngart’s near-future novel Super Sad True Love Story, a poignant scene occurs when forty-something Lenny tries to read a book to twenty-something Eunice, a college graduate with the most prestigious education of her day. Eunice, faced with a Milan Kundera tome, admits, “I never really learned to read texts. ... Just to scan…
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Carissa Turner SmithJanuary 15, 2012