American author, journalist, and television producer Candace Bushnell (above) had Hamptonites in stitches last Thursday night at Baron’s Cove in Sag Harbor as she shared a reading from a piece she is currently working on entitled “The He’s As Old As Your Father Guy” from her new – as yet untitled book.

Bushnell is the critically acclaimed, international best-selling author of Killing Monica, Sex and the City, Summer and the City, The Carrie Diaries, One Fifth Avenue, Lipstick Jungle, Trading Up, and Four Blondes. Sex and the City, published in 1996, was the basis for the HBO hit series and two subsequent blockbuster movies. From Sex and the City through eight successive novels, Candace has revealed a gift for tapping into the zeitgeist of any New York minute.

With each book, she has deepened her range, but with a light touch that makes her complex literary accomplishments look easy. Through her books and television series, Candace’s work has influenced and defined two generations of women.

The Guardian Newspaper sums up Candace’s work this way: “She caustically addresses the conditions of materialism, cramped urban life, and metropolitan speed, where fame and wealth are all around, but never in one’s grasp . . . . Bushnell is courageous in bringing this to the fore, and she is blessed with an Austen-like mastery in doing so. She cuts through the lies that women tell themselves about the surface equality of Western society. As such, she has much more in common with Edith Wharton, Dorothy Parker and early Bret Easton Ellis.”

Guests in attendance, included: Curtis Bashaw, Candace Bushnell, Jim Coleman, Jeanine Pepler, Steve Miller, Sara Colleton, Laura McFarlane, Laura Grenning, Michael Foggio, Scarlett Magda, Anne Tait, Sue Devitt, Dr. Mark Kot & Keli Delaney, and Daisy Miller.

Photos by Doug Young