She arrives in the city’s theater scene and meets an endlessly entertaining group of artists.
“I thought, ‘Oh my God, New York City in the 1940s?
I want to write about that!

When we meet the pair, they hate each other; after a one-night stand, sparks fly.
But forSex and the Cityauthor Candace Bushnell, it’s exactly the age when women need her the most.
But it’s been a long wait since her lauded 2011 debut,The Tiger’s Wife.

“That’s something I’ve been intrigued by since I was a kid.
O’Neill spent 20 years wrestling with that question, andChaosis his final answer.
“The satire has to be more than reality,” says author Reed King.

“I kept having to go back and change things!”
“Apollo 13andBackdraftwere two of my favorite movies when I was a kid,” Hart tells EW.
“Ron Howard was one of the first directors that I could cite by name.

All of these years later, for him to be interested in a book that I wrote?
It’s completely surreal.

