Karl Taro Greenfeld's 6 favorite novels-in-stories

The accomplished journalist and author recommends stories about gang members, drugs, and down-and-out living

Karl Taro Greenfeld's first novel, Triburbia, unfolds as a series of interconnected stories about well-heeled residents of New York's Tribeca neighborhood.

The Wanderers by Richard Price (Mariner, $15). The author of Clockers deftly dips in and out of the lives of a group of gang members, delivering a multi-perspective rendering of the Bronx circa 1963 that's also a great coming-of-age book. Price — just 24 when he wrote this — masterfully conveyed the confusion, anxieties, and violence of boys becoming men.

Winesberg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (Dover, $3.50). Published in 1919, Winesberg, Ohio exposes the desperation and loneliness of the residents of a small, mid-American town. It was among the first books to render the kind of suburban angst that would later be taken up by Updike, Cheever, and Franzen.

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