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September

Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W by Gabriel Brownstein. A stunning debut, this short-fiction collection is mainly set in one Manhattan apartment building. The story "The Inventor of Love" evokes a lesbian social worker's desperation to place a deeply troubled child with a well-intentioned gay male couple. (W.W. Norton, $23.95)

Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon. Hemon, a Sarajevan-turned-Chicagoan, is considered the 21st century's Nabokov. His first novel features Victor Plavchuk, a queer theory grad student who narrates one chapter from the life of his (unrequited) beloved, the brooding Slavic protagonist Jozef Pronek. (Doubleday/ Nan ...

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