Sex and the City : Kiss and Tell [Import] [Hardcover]

AMY SOHN (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: CHANNEL 4 BOOKS; First Edition edition (2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0752265059
• ISBN-13: 978-0752265056
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,581,132 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Amy's new novel, Motherland, will be published in August 2012 by Simon & Schuster. Beyond that . . .
In 1973 Amy was born in Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan. Raised in Brooklyn Heights, Amy went on to attend Hunter College High School in Manhattan, alma mater of Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan. In 1995 Amy was graduated from Brown University, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, and with Honors.
In 1995 Amy returned to Brooklyn to pursue a career as an actress. It didn't go well, though she did appear in an episode of "Law and Order" for forty seconds, an episode for which she still receives residuals. In 1996 she became a columnist at New York Press, writing her autobiographical "Female Trouble" column, a chronicle of dating below Fourteenth Street that elicited loads of invective from readers and shamed her parents at dinner parties. This column was satirized in a cartoon by Anthony Haden-Guest that featured a blond and brunette talking, with the brunette telling the blond, "I'm the new you." This was thought to be based on Amy and Candace Bushnell, though Anthony never admitted it outright.
In 1999, Simon & Schuster published Amy's first novel, Run Catch Kiss, which has since been translated into four languages. According to the New York Times review of the book, "A little-known event that took place around the time that Richard M. Nixon was resigning as President was the birth of Amy Sohn, who has emerged as a representative of her generation." The review included the word "concomitant," "concupiscence," and "Spenglerian," three words that do not appear in the novel.
In 1999 Amy became a columnist at the New York Post, where she enraged management by comparing Mayor Giuliani to Hitler and writing an expose on the Yankees locker room. In 2000, Amy co-created, wrote and starred in a television show for Oxygen's "X Chromosome" animated series entitled "Avenue Amy."
In August 2001 Amy landed at New York magazine. At New York, her columns mirrored the trajectory of her life, from "Naked City" to "Mating" to "Breeding." In 2004 Simon & Schuster published her second novel, My Old Man, about a May-December relationship between a rabbinical school dropout and an aging screenwriter. It took place in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
In 2008 she became a columnist at England's Grazia magazine, where she wrote a column called "Diary of a Recessionista." The recession soon took over and the column was axed. Over the years, Amy has also written for Harper's Bazaar, Premiere, Playboy, Elle, The New York Times, and Details. She is a recipient of a reader award from Playboy called the Golden Bunny and was voted one of Park Slope's 100 most influential people. She is certain she is the only individual to have received both honors.
In 2009 Simon & Schuster published Amy's third novel, Prospect Park West, about four Park Slope mothers on the verge of a nervous breakdown. It was translated into five languages.
As a pundit on popular culture, she has appeared on such networks as VH1, MTV, Fox News, CNN, Lifetime, MSNBC, and PBS. She has written television pilots for ABC, Fox, Lifetime and most recently, HBO and Sarah Jessica Parker, who optioned Prospect Park West. She has written two films, a Gen X Big Chill called Spin the Bottle, and a Gen X horror film called Pagans.
She grew up in Brooklyn, where she still lives today. She has a brother, five years younger. She voted for Barack Obama and raised money for him. Her favorite writers are Laurie Colwin, Hilma Wolitzer, Charles Bukowski, Nathanael West, Mary Gaitskill, and Bruce Jay Friedman. Her favorite films include Gregory's Girl, The Landlord, The Apartment, My Life as a Dog, and Together.
She had her seventh birthday party at Kramer versus Kramer but not all the children were permitted by their parents to come. As a child she was taken to the films Heartland, Splash, Heart Like a Wheel, The Magical Mystery Tour, and Mr. Hulot's Holiday and is glad about it. She thinks Wainwright elevates Apatow and not the other way around. She has strong biceps but weak abs. She is aware that her inspiration for this list was the Kevin Costner speech in Bull Durham. She has had sexual fantasies about Richard Ford and they were productive.
If she could switch careers she would be a Broadway musical theater producer or a sommelier. She dresses to the left. She believes that when it comes to hair highlights, cheap is expensive. Her favorite joke is, "What's the difference between a Jew and a Gentile? A Gentile leaves without saying goodbye and a Jew says goodbye without leaving." She also enjoys a very tasteless Katharine Hepburn joke whose punchline is, "How do you turn it off?" Her favorite candy is York Peppermint Patties and she always has a knot in the same section of her hair when she wakes up. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
Like her at www.facebook.com/amysohn and visit her at www.amysohn.com.

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50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST for Sex and the City Fans..., October 16, 2002

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L. Wimberley (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell (Hardcover)

This book is gorgeous, to start out with. The hard cover is set in an appropriate hot pink with reptile skin-like texture. Too cool. The book opens up to a short introduction by Sarah Jessica Parker. There are literally hundreds of pictures everywhere. You really get a 'behind-the-scenes' look at what goes on. There is a complete episode guide to seasons 1-4 with a break down of each episode. Some of the things I really enjoyed in the book were as follows:
1) For each main character, they have a biography and pictures of when the star was younger, which I think is really nice to see.
2) For each main character they have a huge line of pictures of the star in some of thier 'featured outfits'. You get to see all of the wonderful fashions as they wore on the show.
3) There is also a timeline for the four girls on everyone they have dated on the show, and who they 'did' and 'didn't do', which was a humorous touch. :)

There is SO much more that I will leave for you to discover when you read the book. I've been a fan of this series for the past three years and I was NOT dissapointed in the least. This book has it all...

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Companion to the Series, October 17, 2002

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Paul Katz (Hollywood, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell (Hardcover)

This book is a perfect companion to the fantastic HBO series. It's well designed and written, colorful, and a great deal of fun. So much information is here, from the genesis of the project down to the design of the sets and the costumes. Every possible angle of this show is touched upon and then some! It's fantastic for fans of the series or even for fans of television production in general.

Many of the stories and anecdotes told by the cast and crew are almost as funny as the show itself! It's so interesting to read the skittishness of some actors or the little bits and scenes that got cut our because HBO thought they were "too much!"

I highly recommend this book if you've seen every episode and flat out love the show!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!, December 26, 2002

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Rhonda C. Elsaesser "jerseygirlinkentucky" (Fort Drum, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell (Hardcover)

This book is a real gem! It's packed with tons of photographs and inside information about the series. There are interviews with all of the cast that are interspersed throughout the book. There are wonderful photographs of the fashions, the locations, and of the cast. HBO and the cast thoroughly endorsed this book and it shows. Every episode of the past four seasons is discussed and all the tidbits of information are there. What a delight for the fan of this show. And the beautiful pink cover of the book is just to die for. This book is lots of fun that you'll be pouring over for hours and hours.