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About Virginia Postrel
American journalist and author
Virginia Postrel is an American journalist and author who writes about commerce, culture, and technology. She is known for essays and commentary on how these areas shape modern life. She is a contributing editor at Works in Progress and co-hosts the podcast Everyday Abundance. Her work often focuses on the meeting point of markets, ideas, and everyday life, with a clear interest in how people make sense of change.
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- “Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, aga…”Virginia Postrel
Reflections: more sayings
- “The talk shows I've done are all radio for exactly this reason: I don't want to wear a rubber mask.”Gregory Benford
- “Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.”Dawn Fraser
- “Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images,…”Alberto Giacometti
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Books by Virginia Postrel
The Substance of Style
2003
The Fabric of Civilization
2020