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Despite the fact that Candace Bushnell's new novel One Fifth Avenue features a character (descriptive name alert!), Lola Fabrikant, for whom Carrie Bradshaw is an avowed role model, do not accuse Bushnell of being self-referential. "Honey... get over it," she admonished an interviewer who dared to do so. "You gotta grow up. You gotta let go... of aaaaaall the jealousy." In her defense, she was inside a restaurant at the time and testy about not being able to chainsmoke, and the reporter was Australian, so she may have thought he said "self-reverential." And if we don't revere ourselves, who else will? [The Age]