Alison Rose, The New Yorker’s Femme Fatale, Dies at 81 NYT | Top Stories By: Penelope Green 19 October 2025 at 01:21 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. © Najlah Feanny/Corbis, via Getty ImagesAlison 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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