Web writer Virginia Heffernan: Online isn’t real life

Upper Valley native Virginia Heffernan signs copies of her book “Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art” at the Bookstock Literary Festival in Woodstock. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDiggerWOODSTOCK — Brace yourself, Luddites: Upper Valley native turned New York writer Virginia Heffernan believes “the internet is the great masterpiece of civilization, a massive and collective work of art.”
“Pop culture is always said to be bad for you,” she begins her ar