“Miss Lonelyhearts” by Nathaniel West

Miss Lonelyhearts is a short novella about a newspaper writer who writes the agony column during the Great Depression. It is a black comedy about a man of a man with a Christ complex trying to help others. While intensely nihilistic in some ways, If you like Dostoevsky this story will interest you. You can find it here: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124888/page/n5/mode/2up