(b. 1969– )
U.S. journalist
Virginia Heffernan
I started to distrust telephones the instant they stopped working. I can’t pinpoint when that was—the first time I “dropped” a call, or someone said, “I’m losing you”—and I don’t know why the telephone, the analog landline telephone, was never formally mourned.
“Funeral for a Friend,” The New York Times Magazine, October 29, 2010.