TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019‘Manhattan was the Wild West
of #MeToo behaviour’
‘Sex and the City’ author Candace Bushnell opens up to Olivia
Petter about feminism, dating in her fifties, and why Sarah Jessica
Parker is the antithesis to Carrie Bradshaw
Back with a memoir, the writer asks: ‘Is There Still Sex in the City?’ (Anna Maguire)
Candace Bushnell will never be as famous as her alter ego, Carrie Bradshaw. “I swear every Sex and the City
fan account has at least 200,000 followers,” the author says. “I have 20,000, I’m like, ‘what the fuck?’” It’s
been 21 years since Bushnell’s dating column in the New York Observer spawned one of the most adored
franchises in modern memory. Sex and the City comprises Bushnell’s best-selling book – a compilation of
her columns – an award-winning television series and two films. She has written eight books since, two of