In an interview with jiatolentino, CandaceBushnell reflects on who is allowed to write the Great American Novel and addresses the rumor that she will join the Real Housewives of New York.
all wrote about New York society. I may not be in the same league as a writer, but I cover the same territory.”
I was depressed when I wrote part of that book. My father died when I was writing it, and a friend of mine committed suicide. That wasThese fears come back up, echoing the fears that you’d had when you were younger. The fear of being—I’d moved to Sag Harbor, and I hadthese friends who were suddenly divorced. It was literally my friends who I wrote about in “Sex and the City,” but twenty-five years later, with these very different lives.
One notable feature of “And Just Like That . . .” is that the characters seem to have suddenly awoken into a sense of being out of step with culture. It’s almost like they are shocked by being able to see their own whiteness and straightness, by the way culture and gender are changing. Have you had any of those moments yourself?
Very early on. As a girl. All these things I was supposed to think and feel—to fall in love and be with one man for the rest of my life? It’s like, what if I can’t do that? And in other cultures, you’ll befor not following these expectations. I just always felt that the world was really sexist. Women were really told what they could and couldn’t do. There was all this messaging about what youThat’s interesting.
There are a couple different kinds of feminism, it seems to me. On the one hand, there’s a kind of intellectual feminism with a lot of insider rules and a lot of what’s O.K. and what isn’t. But, to me, feminism is: look at the world, and see where women are. In most places, women don’t have the freedoms that we have in the U.S., and, even in the U.S., we live in a culture that’s brutal to women.
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