KEY BENEFIT: Literature, Compact Interactive Edition comes automatically with MyLiteratureLab, Longman's multimedia website. MyLiteratureLab screen icons are found in the margins throughout the book. An icon next to an author's name indicates that further resources about that author are available on MyLiteratureLab. Presents a rich array of diverse and exciting selections including 52 short stores, 376 poems, and 11 plays; a chapter on Latin American poetry; and nine extensive casebooks composed of five author casebooks as well as four masterpiece casebooks on specific selections. New to this edition are: Conversations between Dana Gioia and celebrated fiction writer Amy Tan, U. S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, and contemporary playwright David Ives, offer students offer readers an insider�s look into the importance of reading to three contemporary writers. Every chapter concludes with a review of key terms for easy reference. Many new writers have been added including Naguib Mahfouz, Virginia Woolf, Sherman Alexie, Mary Oliver, Bettie Sellers, and Anne Deavere Smith. For anyone who enjoys reading a diverse selection of fiction, poetry, and drama.