Season 1 Episode 6

When we think of our teenage years, it’s not all flirting in the hallways and secret longing glances. Nope, for every hot new kid who knows our names, a la Carrie Bradshaw (AnnaSophia Robb) on The Carrie Diaries, there’s at least three Donna LaDonnas — rivals sent to ruin our lives. But when author Candace Bushnell came up with the concept of the book (which is now the CW...

In 1994, then 36-year-old author and journalist Candace Bushnell inaugurated a new column in the New York Observer, titled “Sex and the City.” The following year, the column was published as a book, and the year after that, optioned for television by HBO. Even those of you who have been living under a rock for the past 15 years have likely at least heard of the Sex and the City...