American Literature Is "Massively Overrated" [How to Turn a Positive Article into a Rant]

By Chad Post | January 20th, 2014 | Articles | 0 Comment

This morning, the Guardian: ran an interesting piece recapping a session on the “global novel” at the Jaipur Festival—a session that got a bit heated when Xiaolu Guo called out, well, contemporary American writing1: “Our reading habit has been stolen and changed” said Guo. “For example ...