Spotted at SXSW Interactive: a vending machine retrofitted onto a bicycle cart, dispensing free letterpress books by the technology and art collective Bohemian. This is the kind of innovation I can get behind.
I feel compelled to point out the Austin Convention Center, currently hosting South by Southwest Interactive, is right next to the O. Henry Museum. Geographic kismet?
Opening page of corrected proof of Wallace’s 1996 essay “Shipping Out: On the (Nearly Lethal) Comforts of a Luxury Cruise” for Harper’s magazine. Image courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center.
Get thee to Austin: the Harry Ransom Center is hosting a David Foster Wallace Symposium.
