{"id":46319,"date":"2022-01-06T15:39:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=46319"},"modified":"2022-01-06T16:21:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T16:21:16","slug":"and-just-like-that-carrie-bradshaw-writer","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/and-just-like-that-carrie-bradshaw-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018And Just Like That\u2019: Is Carrie Bradshaw Still A Writer?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw in And Just Like That<\/i> (Photo: Craig Blankenhorn \/ HBO Max)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So far in And Just Like That<\/em><\/a>, we\u2019ve seen former sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw<\/a> getting up to a lot of familiar shenanigans: lunching with friends, shopping, house hunting, stalking her late husband\u2019s ex-wife<\/a>. She\u2019s a busy lady, always has been! But the one thing we really haven\u2019t seen her doing is writing.<\/p>\n

Of course, Carrie\u2019s column was central to Sex and the City<\/em>. It was the original series\u2019 namesake and framing device. Her ever present voiceovers with their ubiquitous puns were meant to represent her writing voice, the thoughts and theses she was working through in each piece she was writing. Every episode featured scenes of the character tapping away at her laptop or wandering around her apartment<\/a> trying to make sense of the story she was working on (it\u2019s all<\/em> writing, as they say). She was constantly talking about her deadlines and insisting to people that, \u201cI\u2019m a writer<\/em>,\u201d in an effort to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n

Carrie\u2019s writing wasn\u2019t just the premise of the show, it was seemingly fundamental to her identity. So, it\u2019s particularly odd in And Just Like That<\/em> not to see her doing this thing that was ostensibly her calling, her vocation. And so\u2014wait for it\u2014I couldn\u2019t help but wonder<\/em>: Is Carrie Bradshaw still a writer?<\/p>\n

Six episodes in<\/a>, the evidence is thin. Carrie seems to spend her time documenting people with \u201cinteresting style\u201d on her Instagram. But, as she mentioned to Che (Sara Ram\u00edrez<\/a>), the host of the podcast on which she regularly appears, she isn\u2019t on Twitter, the preferred social medium of writers and journalists. In fact, Che\u2019s podcast seems to be Carrie\u2019s sole source of employment. Not that she needs<\/em> to work. At the time of his death, Mr. Big still seemed to be rolling in ill-gotten 1980s Wall St. bro dough, the lion\u2019s share of which he bequeathed to Carrie.<\/p>\n

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Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw in And Just Like That<\/i> (Photo: Craig Blankenhorn \/ HBO Max)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But what of her books? We get glimpses of them around both the apartment she and Big share and her old place, as a reminder that she\u2019s a successful author. In the premiere, Big asks if she\u2019s working on something for her next book, so presumably she still has a publisher. And yet, we\u2019re told that one of the primary reasons that Carrie is no longer in touch with Samantha<\/a> has to do with the fact that she ended their professional relationship. \u201cBecause of, you know, what the book business is now, it just didn\u2019t make sense for me to keep her on as a publicist,\u201d she reminds Miranda in the same episode. What the book business is now? What is the book business now? Can bestselling author Carrie Bradshaw\u2019s brand of pithy \u201990s consumerist chick lit really have gone out of fashion?!<\/p>\n

Of course, Carrie isn\u2019t the only character on And Just Like That<\/em> going through a career change. Miranda<\/a>, we\u2019re told, left corporate law to get her Master\u2019s in Human Rights, a development that, while it may feel a little white-guilty, makes sense and is a welcome change for the character. Miranda is absolutely the type of woman who could have conceivably grown disenchanted with her own brand of \u201990s lean-in feminism and shifted into post-Trump pink pussy hat mode. It brings the character into the present moment in a believable, relatable way.<\/p>\n

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Cynthia Nixon in And Just Like That<\/i> (Photo: Craig Blankenhorn \/ HBO Max)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Similarly, a shift away from writing does make a certain amount of sense for Carrie. It goes without saying that the world of And Just Like That<\/em> is very different from the world of Sex and the City<\/em>. When the original show was in its prime, there was still a plethora of alt-weeklies published in New York, in addition to the city\u2019s major newspapers, where a writer like Carrie might pitch stories or even hold a staff position. It was the beginning of the blog boom, when it was still possible to land a book deal based on a popular LiveJournal or whatever. But those days are gone. One imagines that the New York Star, the fictional paper in which Carrie\u2019s column ran, has folded. The kids these days are on TikTok, and the young writers who came to New York in the aughts to forge a career in journalism or literary nonfiction have moved on to more lucrative marketing or PR gigs and maybe maintain a Substack on the side. Even Candace Bushnell<\/a>, the real-life Carrie, has branched out, briefly hosting a satellite radio show and, more recently, starring in a one-woman show Off-Broadway. It makes sense that Carrie\u2019s career would look very different now than it did in 2004.<\/p>\n

But while Miranda\u2019s career transition corrects for some of the character\u2019s qualities that haven\u2019t aged particularly well, Carrie\u2019s plays into some of her more unfortunate characteristics. The perception that, despite all her protestations to the contrary, she was never a serious <\/em>writer, for instance; that her column and her pink jacketed books were just something fun that she did between brunches and shopping trips, a way to monetize her social life. At this point in the character\u2019s arch, Carrie is essentially a wealthy woman of leisure. It\u2019s a development that, while believable, feels out of touch with the scrappy, thoughtful version of the character we came to love in Sex and the City<\/em> as well as with the current cultural and political mood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29097,"featured_media":46321,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16,3925],"yoast_head":"\n\u2018And Just Like That\u2019: Is Carrie Bradshaw Still A Writer?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Carrie Bradshaw\u2019s column was central to \u2018Sex and the City\u2019. 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