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The Guardian’s Carter Sherman fondly remembers being terrified by Ocarina of Time
The author of The Second Coming lives for French press and splurges on concert tickets.
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The author of The Second Coming lives for French press and splurges on concert tickets.
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Carter Sherman has been covering sex, gender, and the complex personal and national politics that accompany them for years. She was a senior reporter for Vice and has written for Elle, Ms. magazine, and Los Angeles magazine as well. Along the way, she’s garnered a Scripps Howard Award, a National Press Club Journalism Award, and four Emmy nominations.
She’s also the author of The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation’s Fight Over Its Future. That book looks at how the internet and our polarized political landscape have changed sex and relationships, from school board battles over sex ed to abortion access. These days she finds herself at The Guardian, where she’s the cohost of Stateside with Kai and Carter.
Sherman was kind enough to tell us about her reliance on coffee and the collection of quotes she keeps for when she needs inspiration.
My French press. I’m from Seattle, so I like to think that I come by my coffee snobbery honestly.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. As a kid, I was terrified of the music that soundtracked the Deku Tree dungeon(s).
I’m incredibly proud of my book, The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation’s Fight Over Its Future. To report it out, I interviewed more than 100 people under 30 about their experiences of and thoughts on sex following #Me Too, the pandemic, and the overturning of Roe v. Wade. I was honored that so many people felt comfortable with me and were willing to open up about such an intimate topic. I spent a decade covering reproductive health, gender, and sexuality as a print and video reporter, and The Second Coming really felt like the culmination of that reporting.
Rick and Morty. I devoured the first eight seasons of that show in, like, two weeks.
Whenever I come across a particularly evocative piece of writing, I add it to a list that I keep in my Notes app. Then, when I feel stuck, I scroll through that list. Sometimes, the phrases will spark an idea; always, it reminds me that good writing — the process of trying to figure out what, exactly, you are trying to say — is worth the work. (Some recent additions to my list: “little runs of laughter,” courtesy of Shirley Jackson; “with a glance like a lasso,” courtesy of Carson Mc Cullers; “her voice was warmed through with nostalgia,” courtesy of Katie Kitamura.)
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