Posts Tagged ‘Sex and the City’

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— Candace Bushnell’s book reviewed in the New York Times.

Candace Bushnell is the critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of Sex and the City, Lipstick Jungle, The Carrie Diaries, One Fifth Avenue, Trading Up, Four Blondes, Summer and the City and Killing Monica. Sex and the City, published in 1996, was the basis for the HBO hit series and two subsequent blockbuster movies. Lipstick Jungle became a popular television series on NBC, as did The Carrie Diaries on the CW.

“You know the title. You watched the show. Maybe you even saw the movies. Candace Bushnell is back doing what she knows best: chronicling the lives of women and how they find love. This time, she turns her lens on middle-aged men and women, and the result is pure magic. At turns wistful and sad, thoughtful and funny, Is There Still Sex In The City? is even better than the original.”—POPSUGAR

Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly on the wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace Bushnell delivers a new book on the wilds and lows of sex and dating after fifty. 

Set between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known as The Village, Is There Still Sex in the City? follows a cohort of female friends―Sassy, Kitty, Queenie, Tilda Tia, Marilyn, and Candace―as they navigate the ever-modernizing phenomena of midlife dating and relationships. There’s “Cubbing,” in which a sensible older woman suddenly becomes the love interest of a much younger man, the “Mona Lisa” Treatment―a vaginal restorative surgery often recommended to middle aged women, and what it’s really like to go on Tinder dates as a fifty-something divorcee. From the high highs (My New Boyfriend or MNBs) to the low lows (Middle Age Madness, or MAM cycles), Bushnell illustrates with humor and acuity today’s relationship landscape and the types that roam it.

Drawing from her own experience, in Is There Still Sex in the City? Bushnell spins a smart, lively satirical story of love and life from all angles―marriage and children, divorce and bereavement, as well as the very real pressures on women to maintain their youth and have it all. This is an indispensable companion to one of the most revolutionary dating books of the twentieth century from one of our most important social commentators.

Susan Feldman is the founder of In The Groove, a new life-style destination for age-defying women. Founded with a sense of humor, community, and self-awareness, In The Grooveis on a mission to free women from rules, age limits, and expectations.

Prior to In The Groove, Susan was the co-founder and visionary behind One Kings Lane, the go-to destination for home decor. Today One Kings Lane is a daily source of shopping and design inspiration for millions of people both online and offline One Kings Lane was sold to Bed, Bath & Beyond  in June 2016. Susan remains a strategic advisor to the company.

Susan has been featured in national publications including Elle Décor, House Beautiful, INStyle, New York Magazine, BusinessWeek, and The New York Times. She has appeared on Bravo’s Million Dollar Decoratorsand NBC’s The Today Show. Susan was named to Vanity Fair’s “New Establishment” list twice in the past six years.

Prior to co-founding One Kings Lane, Susan held executive positions in the apparel industry—at Ralph Lauren Swimwear, Polo Jeans, Warnaco/Authentic Fitness Corp., and Liz Claiborne.

Monday, June 29, 2015
8:00pm 

An Evening with Candace Bushnell
in conversation with Celia Walden
discussing the writing life and her new novel, Killing Monica

William Turner Gallery
Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Avenue,
Santa Monica, CA 90404

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Candace Bushnell is the bestselling writer whose first book, Sex and the City, was the basis for HBO’s hit series and subsequent blockbuster movies.  Other novels, including Lipstick Jungle and The Carrie Diaries, have become hit television series. 

Killing Monica is a novel about an actress who plays the part of a popular character created from a series of books – and becomes obsessed with living out every part of the story in her real life, turning the world of the series’ writer upside down.

In Killing Monica, Bushnell spoofs and skewers her way through pop culture, celebrity worship, fame, and even the meaning of life itself, when a famous writer must resort to faking her own death in order to get her life back from her most infamous creation – Monica. 

Celia Walden is a journalist, novelist and critic best known for her columns and interviews at the Daily Telegraph, where she is US Editor at Large.

Born in Paris in 1975, Cambridge educated Walden – who is trilingual in French and Italian and also speaks Russian – has a monthly feature in Glamour UK and is a contributor to GQ, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Easy Living, The Spectator, Standpoint Magazine, Porter Magazine and Russian Vogue.

She is the author of two novels: Harm’s Way (2008) and Babysitting George, a biography of George Best based on time she spent with him as a journalist, which was nominated for Sports Book of the year in 2011. Married to Piers Morgan, she currently divides her time between LA, New York and London.