Anonymous asked: What would you recommend for a reader who enjoys Margaret Atwood, "House of Leaves", epistolary novels, and modern fantasies that don't center around romance?

There’s a big flood in Chris Adrian’s The Children’s Hospital—and angels, some sinister, some not, and a pervading sense of doom. It’s a favorite. Kelly Link’s short stories are definitely modern and definitely fantastic—surprisingly sweet, but certainly not romance. Tatyana Tolstaya’s The Slynx is one of the weirdest and least romantic novels I know. 

(And of course the epistolarily horrifying Dracula. And Borges! Borges, of course.)  

My colleague Dustin recommends Lethem’s Chronic City and Whitehead’s Zone One, both in future New Yorks. Also Brian Evenson’s Fugue State and Sarah Schulman’s The Mere Future. And Brian Francis Slattery’s Spaceman Blues. It’s very romantic, he says, but what’s the matter with romance?

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