Candace Bushnell on #MeToo and Being Middle Aged
In her ninth book, the chronicler of pre-millennial female sophisticates on the Hit TV show Sex and the City (which aired from 1998 to 2002) checks in from the other side of the menopausal divide. Candace Bushnell's Is There Still Sex In The City? is a sad, but amusing, tour through the lives of women navigating what she calls "Middle Aged Madness." Bushnell, who lost both her parents and got divorced during the last 10 years, moved to the country with a new group of friends looking more for sympathy than pink Cosmos.
The stilettos were tucked away in the closet, presumably in her country house, when an editor enticed Bushnell back into New York. The result: a new taxonomy of the mating habits of men and women while relating the trials of a variety of composite female friends in their 50s. In the book, she explores online dating, meets young men "cubs" in their 20s and early 30s with a fetish for older women, and drops thousands of dollars on a Russian anti-aging scam on Madison Avenue on a low day. She tries to take up cycling, but finds herself too unmotivated to join what
