Drawn from our best-selling anthology, “The Bedford Introduction to Literature,” “Literature to Go” is a new brief and inexpensive collection of stories, poems, and plays supported by Michael Meyer's incomparable, class-tested instruction. With literature from many periods, cultures, and diverse voices, including today's funniest writers, the book is also a complete guide to close reading, critical thinking, and thoughtful writing about literature. Students discover literature as a diverse, lively, and often humorous reflection of their own lives.
“Literature ”“to Go”: The first literature anthology available as an e-Book! Available in CourseSmart and Bedford/St. Martin's editions. Access the e-Book here.

Drawn from our best-selling anthology, “The Bedford Introduction to Literature,” “Literature to Go” is a new brief and inexpensive collection of stories, poems, and plays supported by Michael Meyer's incomparable, class-tested instruction. With literature from many periods, cultures, and diverse voices, including today's funniest writers, the book is also a complete guide to close reading, critical thinking, and thoughtful writing about literature. Students discover literature as a diverse, lively, and often humorous reflection of their own lives.
E-Book.“ Literature ”“to Go” The first digital literature anthology Available in CourseSmart and Bedford/St. Martin's editions. Tour the interactive Bedford e-book.Access the interactive Bedford e-book.

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Michael Meyer is currently Director of Communications for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Between 1988 and 1992, he was “Newsweek”'s Bureau Chief for Germany, Central Europe and the Balkans, writing more than twenty cover stories on the break-up of communist Europe and German unification. He is the winner of two Overseas Press Club Awards and appears regularly as a commentator for MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, C-Span, NPR and other broadcast network. He previously worked at the “Washington Post” and “Congressional Quarterly”. He is the author of the “Alexander Complex” (Times Books,