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For years,Sex and the Cityfans have wondered how Carrie Bradshaw afforded her Upper East Side apartment and funded her lavish N.Y.C. lifestyle on a writer’s salary.
In an interview withThe New Yorkerpublished Wednesday,Candace Bushnell— the real-life columnist who inspired the cultural icon — revealed that she made $5,000 a month penning a column forVoguein the ’90s, during a time she said writing was “valued.”
“In the nineties, for me — it was a real time for media. I worked forVogue, writing the ‘People Are Talking About’ column, and got paid five thousand dollars a month,” she revealed.
“TheObserverpaid less, but I could afford that, because ofVogue. I mean, this was a time that writers were getting aVanity Faircontract for six pieces and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year,” Bushnell continued. “People valued writing; it wasn’t considered something everyone can do. Now, because of the computer, everyone has to do it, so we think everyonecando it.”
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“There were a lot of episodes that I’ve really enjoyed — probably too many to name,” Bushnell added. “I would say my favorite episodes are definitely in the first two seasons because that, to me, feels the most authentic and really captures the spirit of the book.”
Bushnell recently performed her one-woman showIs There Still Sex in the City?in N.Y.C., but the Off-Broadway run was cut short in December when shetested positive for COVID-19.
source: people.com
