Why shouldn’t I? I demand silently. Why shouldn’t I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemmingway and all those other men. Why can’t I be like them? I mean, what is the point of becoming a writer if no one reads what you’ve written? Damn Viktor Greene and The New School. Why do I have to keep proving myself all of the time? Why can’t I be like L’il, with everyone praising and encouraging me? Or Rainbow, with her sense of entitlement. I bet Viktor Greene never asked Rainbow why she wanted to be a writer. Or what if-I wince-Viktor Greene is right? I’m not a writer after all.

In 1997 Bushnell's columns were publiCandace Bushnelld in an anthology also called Sex and the City and soon after became the basis for the popular HBO television series sharing the same name. While attending high school in Glastonbury Candace was accompanied to her senior prom by Mike O'Meara now a nationally syndicated radio host who also dated Candace's sister "Lolly". Bushnell began writing for the New York Observer in 1993.

Sex and the City publiCandace Bushnelld in 1996 was the basis for the HBO hit series and two subsequent blockbuster movies. Candace Bushnell (born December 1 1958) is an American author and columnist based in New York City. Candace Bushnell is the critically acclaimed international best-selling author of Sex and the City Summer and the City The Carrie Diaries One Fifth Avenue Lipstick Jungle Trading Up and Four Blondes.