Rachel Adams, Author at Atticus Review

Bees, Service and Privilege: How I Justify Writing in Dystopia

by Rachel Adams | Jul 24, 2014 | Literary Matters | 1

There are many voices telling writers to stop it, stop it right now. There’s the ego, telling us we’re not good enough. Consumerist culture tells us we’re not producing enough and we’re never going to earn enough to consume enough to be happy. There are publishers telling us that we’re just not what they’re looking for. Our parents worry. The usefulness of our degrees dwindle. We continue to grow in number, increasingly aware of one another’s jostling elbows.

The Gods of the Bestseller Lists

by Rachel Adams | May 22, 2014 | Literary Matters | 0

Elizabeth Gilbert doesn’t think she’s a genius. Artistic geniuses tend to implode under the weight of their own expectations. Elizabeth Gilbert isn’t about to die young, so she thinks of genius as a spirit that moves past her,...