Something from the Cellar: Sex & The City author Candace Bushnell
White Wine Question Time
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🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Our mini literature festival continues with an author who helped shape the the early part of the millennium - her New York Observer column 'Sex & the City' would spark a TV show that endures to this day - 30 years on from the first published anthology of her work.
Candace Bushnell has gone on to write many more books, many continuing the tales of Carrie Bradshaw.
In 2023 Candace joined White Wine Question Time for a chat - and as we look back at some of the best authors to have appeared on the podcast it felt right to include this episode.
If EVER there was a time to pour yourself a glass - it has to be to this.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time, the podcast that asks its guests three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. |
| 0:11.6 | And today we're heading back down to the cellar for another episode from the archives as part of our mini literature festival that we're holding this month. |
| 0:19.0 | It features another world-beating best-selling |
| 0:22.0 | author. In fact, my guest today is a woman who, in the 90s, redefined how a generation of |
| 0:28.9 | women saw themselves, their friendships, their success, and ultimately their sexuality. Raised in rural |
| 0:34.7 | Connecticut by a rocket scientist dad, true story, and a travel agent mom, she dropped out of university at 19 to move to New York with just $20 in her pocket and ambitions of becoming an actor. |
| 0:45.3 | Soon after the move though, her sights turned to journalism and New York in the 90s became her storyboard. |
| 0:51.3 | Sofer surfing and struggling to get by, she started to claw and living as a writer, working for some of New York's best titles, and in 1994, managed to land a weekly column with the New York Observer. It was called Sex in the City, and it starred, well, her, but as a fictitious Carrie Bradshaw. The column was a huge success and was published as a book two years later |
| 1:12.1 | sewing the seeds of what would go on to become |
| 1:14.2 | the multi-award winning, |
| 1:15.6 | world beating Sex in the City TV series. |
| 1:18.8 | After two seasons of writing on the show, |
| 1:20.9 | she left to become an author |
| 1:22.0 | and wrote 10 best-selling novels. |
| 1:25.0 | So here she is. |
| 1:26.0 | In conversation with May, back in 2023, it's the |
| 1:29.3 | wonderful Candice Bushnell. |
| 1:36.4 | How are you? I am excellent after that incredible intro. Well, it's all true. You did. That's all the stuff you've done. And it is the most |
| 1:47.6 | remarkable CV. And I hope that you kind of grasp that hearing it back. Because I'm sure not every |
| 1:55.4 | day you feel like one of life's great achievers. No, I usually don't. I worry a lot about, you know, being, you know, being successful and |
| 2:07.2 | the next thing and achieving. It makes me happy. You know, it makes me happy when things work out |
| 2:15.7 | and you get that check and sign that contract. |
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