Better Than Sane: Tales from a Dangling Girl Rose Alison
Better Than Sane: Tales from a Dangling Girl Rose Alison When forty-one-year-old Alison Rose got a job as a receptionist at the New Yorker in the mid-80s, she was taken up by the writers there--"a…
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Better Than Sane: Tales from a Dangling Girl Rose Alison
When forty-one-year-old Alison Rose got a job as a receptionist at the New Yorker in the mid-80s, she was taken up by the writers there--"a tribe of gods," who turned her from a semi-recluse into a full-fledged writer for the magazine. Rose was unlike anyone in the group. These kindred souls formed an impromptu club: Insane Anonymous (a "whole other world that was better than sane").
She writes about growing up in California, daughter of a movie-star-handsome psychiatrist who was charming to friends but a bully and a As Renata Adler said of Alison's path, "It was the most nuanced, courageous, utterly crazy way to have wended."In Better Than Sane, Rose takes us from her childhood to her years at The New Yorker, revealing how, often, she "didn't care enough about existence to keep it going" and preferred to stay in her room with her animals and think.
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