The Carrie Diaries The Carrie Diaries The Carrie Diaries is a young adult novel, the first in a series of the same name by American author Candace Bushnell. The series is a prequel to Bushnell's 1997 collection "Sex and the City", and follows the character of Carrie Bradshaw during her senior year of high school during the early 1980s and part of her life in New York City working as a writer. The "Los Angeles Times" described it as "[a]n addictive, ingenious origin story." "The Carrie Diaries" focuses on Carrie Bradshaw, a high-school student who lives in Castleberry, Connecticut. Carrie is followed through
Sex and the City dismissive of some of its more problematic content." On the 20th anniversary of the show's premiere, the Guardian published an opinion piece by Rebecca Nicholson arguing that the show should not be discounted because of its retrospective flaws, but should still be appreciated for the fact that "it was, and is, a brilliant, daring, pioneering show." There are multiple social media fan accounts that look at the series from more than a decade after its premiere offering new commentary and interpretation including the Instagram accounts Carrie Dragshaw (@dan_clay) and Every Outfit on Sex & the City (@everyoutfitonSATC). Season one of