Candace Bushnell
Candace Bushnell is the author whose New York Observer column became the 1996 book Sex and the City and, in turn, the HBO series that defined a generation's idea of dating, friendship, and ambition in New York. She created Carrie Bradshaw and has spent the decades since writing novels (Lipstick Jungle, The Carrie Diaries, Is There Still Sex in the City?) and touring a one-woman stage show. Nearly thirty years on, she remains one of the sharpest chroniclers of money, sex, and single life.
Circuit updated September 1, 2026
- Candace Bushnell says she got married after three months because her ballet dancer husband only had July Fourth weekend off
“Um well, I married my husband after like three months.” 4:21
- Candace Bushnell says a typical 90s New York night was 20 drinks, a couple grams of coke, and two packs of cigarettes
“you know, a typical night was you know, have 20 drinks, like a couple grams of coke, and probably like two packs of cigarettes.” 7:48
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“you know, a typical night was you know, have 20 drinks, like a couple grams of coke, and probably like two packs of cigarettes.”
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“these are real people who said really said these things. And these are real attitudes that people have.”
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“got married. We really weren't I mean, we I think we were like engaged for a week.”
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“I I I you know, getting the ick and being able to say bye-bye is a privilege.”
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“You don't pick the wrong person. That's what the majority of men are like.”
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“Yes, that's pretty much what we used to call a relationship.”
Candace Bushnell · Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton
Candace Bushnell says she got married after three months because her ballet dancer husband only had July Fourth weekend off
The Sex and the City writer turned a Gen Z slang quiz into a tiny manifesto for pre-Instagram romantic recklessness.
Candace Bushnell says a typical 90s New York night was 20 drinks, a couple grams of coke, and two packs of cigarettes
The Sex and the City author gives Gen Z the least cosmo-glossy version of the myth: the real New York was darker, meaner, smokier, and much more financially brutal than the HBO fantasy.