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Among the Assisterati: Bottoms Up with the Highbrow Bottom Feeders

By Kat Stoeffel | March 8, 2011 | 8:03 pm

On a Tuesday evening not long ago, a group of publishing assistants in their early 20s gathered in a well-appointed apartment on the West Side of Manhattan. "Assistants: Meet the person on the other end of the telephone," the email had said. Still in their workday Moscots and belted sweater dresses, they found live human beings and an assistant's paycheck worth of cheese and wine, along with a gestural six-pack of beer that would go... MORE >