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Alison Rose, The New Yorker’s Femme Fatale, Dies at 81

She started as the magazine’s glamorous receptionist and became one of its more singular writers. In one of her last articles, she memorialized her time (and lovers) there.

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Alison Rose in 2004. Her memoir, “Better Than Sane: Tales From a Dangling Girl,” grew out of a bombshell article about her time at The New Yorker.
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