Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love Audiobook (Free)

The bestselling writer of Seinfeldia offers a fascinating retrospective from the iconic and award-winning television series, Sex and the City, in a “bubbly, yet fierce cultural dissection from the groundbreaking show” (Chicago Tribune).

This is the story of what sort of columnist, two gay men, and a writers’ room full of women used their own poignant, hilarious, and humiliating stories to start a cultural phenomenon. They endured surprise, slut-shaming, and a slew of awful reviews on their method to eventual— about Sex and the City and Us: How Four Solitary Women Changed just how We Think, Live, and Love if still often begrudging—respect. The show wasn’t perfect, but it revolutionized tv for ladies.

When Candace Bushnell began writing for the brand new York Observer, she didn’t think anyone outside of the top East Part would care about her travels among the Hamptons-hopping press elite. But her challenges with singlehood struck a chord. Beverly Hillsides, 90210 originator Darren Superstar brought her vision to an even wider audience when he modified the column for HBO. Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha released a barrage of styles, forever branded the actresses that took for the roles, redefined females’s romantic relationship to sex and raised the conception of singlehood.

Featuring exclusive new interviews with the cast and writers, including star Sarah Jessica Parker, creator Darren Star, executive producer Michael Patrick King, and author Candace Bushnell, “Jennifer Keishin Armstrong brings readers inside the writers’ space and into the scribes’ lives…The composing is usually fizzy and funny, but she even now manages an in-depth look at a show that’s been examined for decades, giving readers a retrospective as enjoyable as a $20 pink cocktail” (The Washington Post). Sex and the City and Us is usually both a critical and nostalgic behind-the-scenes take a look at a tv series that changed the way women see themselves.