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Is American literature 鈥榤assively overrated鈥�?

01/23/2014 10:06 am ET British-Chinese author Xiaolu Guo, who was selected by Granta Magazine as one of Britain's best young novelists and was recently shortlisted for the Orange Prize, criticized American literature and also expressed concern that literature has become too 鈥榮torytelling-driven.鈥� 'All the poetry, all the alternative things, have been pushed away by mainstream society,' she said.