Allison C. Meier
@allisoncmeier.bsky.social
Writer on art, culture, history & other wonders. Editor at Fine Books & Collections. NYC-based, Oklahoma born. 'Grave' book is out now from Bloomsbury! (she/her)
This question is inspired by @besslovejoy.bsky.social’s fantastic story in the fall issue on tattered book treasures. www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/autumn...
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This question is inspired by @besslovejoy.bsky.social’s fantastic story in the fall issue on tattered book treasures. www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/autumn...
If you want to read all about why cemetery ledgers matter, the people keeping metal type making alive, the joys of collecting well-worn books, medieval fragmentology & much more, pick up the fall issue of @finebooks.bsky.social , edited by me! store.finebooksmagazine.com/autumn-2025/...
September 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If you want to read all about why cemetery ledgers matter, the people keeping metal type making alive, the joys of collecting well-worn books, medieval fragmentology & much more, pick up the fall issue of @finebooks.bsky.social , edited by me! store.finebooksmagazine.com/autumn-2025/...
If you want to lift your spirits by having a drink & perusing excellent zines, the Pete's Mini Zine Fest is tomorrow at Pete's Candy Store hosted by Quimby's! I'll be bringing my zines on cemeteries, manhole covers, spirit photography & more. www.instagram.com/p/DOtlLgVEZx...
September 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If you want to lift your spirits by having a drink & perusing excellent zines, the Pete's Mini Zine Fest is tomorrow at Pete's Candy Store hosted by Quimby's! I'll be bringing my zines on cemeteries, manhole covers, spirit photography & more. www.instagram.com/p/DOtlLgVEZx...
Delightful surprise to open a Brooklyn Public Library book & find it was once Pete Hamill’s! (And inscribed to him by Max Gordon of the Village Vanguard.) Love that this is just part of the circulating collection.
September 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Delightful surprise to open a Brooklyn Public Library book & find it was once Pete Hamill’s! (And inscribed to him by Max Gordon of the Village Vanguard.) Love that this is just part of the circulating collection.
This is just a sampling, but especially grim & depressing are the ones pitching my own articles, this one about poisonous books, to me.
August 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This is just a sampling, but especially grim & depressing are the ones pitching my own articles, this one about poisonous books, to me.
The summer issue of @finebooks.bsky.social I edited is out, with tales of literary Portugal, people who love endpapers, poisonous books, Route 66 maps & more! Get a copy now in beautiful print www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue
July 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The summer issue of @finebooks.bsky.social I edited is out, with tales of literary Portugal, people who love endpapers, poisonous books, Route 66 maps & more! Get a copy now in beautiful print www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue
Never not a weird time to promote projects these days but I am proud of this brand new Modernist NYC Map I authored for Blue Crow Media! Has over 50 sites for you to wander actoss the five boroughs bluecrowmedia.com/products/mod...
June 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Never not a weird time to promote projects these days but I am proud of this brand new Modernist NYC Map I authored for Blue Crow Media! Has over 50 sites for you to wander actoss the five boroughs bluecrowmedia.com/products/mod...
The Matta-Clark roses are now blooming!
May 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The Matta-Clark roses are now blooming!
From this weekend: the manhole covers of New Orleans!
March 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
From this weekend: the manhole covers of New Orleans!
This Saturday night! I'm leaving my home to co-host a storytelling event at Chinatown Soup as part of the Goblin Market. Please join & bring any tales you would like to share of Uncanny Journeys. My zines will also be among the market's wares from March 21-30 www.eventbrite.com/e/goblin-mar...
March 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This Saturday night! I'm leaving my home to co-host a storytelling event at Chinatown Soup as part of the Goblin Market. Please join & bring any tales you would like to share of Uncanny Journeys. My zines will also be among the market's wares from March 21-30 www.eventbrite.com/e/goblin-mar...
Made a zine of my photos of guiding angels in Green-Wood Cemetery, looking at how they depict Victorian women & children at a time when pregnancy was not a choice. Selling them for $20 incl. shipping to give the profits to the Roe Fund of Oklahoma, send a DM or reach out allisoncmeier.com/contact/
March 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Made a zine of my photos of guiding angels in Green-Wood Cemetery, looking at how they depict Victorian women & children at a time when pregnancy was not a choice. Selling them for $20 incl. shipping to give the profits to the Roe Fund of Oklahoma, send a DM or reach out allisoncmeier.com/contact/
I never get tired of the city snow
February 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I never get tired of the city snow
Ellen Fullman made & performed the Long String Instrument of the evening, but apparently the idea of an instrument with really long strings dates back to the 17th century. Thank you Wikipedia for this image comparing human to Long String en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-st...
February 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Ellen Fullman made & performed the Long String Instrument of the evening, but apparently the idea of an instrument with really long strings dates back to the 17th century. Thank you Wikipedia for this image comparing human to Long String en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-st...
Sometimes I make myself feel bad for spending time on zines as opposed to “real writing” (whatever that means these days) but it’s fun to walk by the wonderful Quimbys in Williamsburg & see my little NYC Epitaphs zine among the cool DIY publications
January 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Sometimes I make myself feel bad for spending time on zines as opposed to “real writing” (whatever that means these days) but it’s fun to walk by the wonderful Quimbys in Williamsburg & see my little NYC Epitaphs zine among the cool DIY publications
Finally caught the ‘Imaginary Books’ exhibit at the Grolier Club & the attention to detail in making the books real in their time & place is great. We have an article about this collection of imaginary books in the latest @finebooks.bsky.social: store.finebooksmagazine.com/winter-2025....
January 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Finally caught the ‘Imaginary Books’ exhibit at the Grolier Club & the attention to detail in making the books real in their time & place is great. We have an article about this collection of imaginary books in the latest @finebooks.bsky.social: store.finebooksmagazine.com/winter-2025....
Always enjoy encountering a xylotheque, where tree specimens are shaped like books as a sort of herbarium. This one is from the 1960s and has woods from Maine
January 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Always enjoy encountering a xylotheque, where tree specimens are shaped like books as a sort of herbarium. This one is from the 1960s and has woods from Maine
The Center for Book Arts has a cool exhibit about “blooks,” or book-shaped objects! From book lighters to marble book memorial objects
January 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The Center for Book Arts has a cool exhibit about “blooks,” or book-shaped objects! From book lighters to marble book memorial objects
Radiant sunset witnessed tonight (as seen in Prospect Park)
January 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Radiant sunset witnessed tonight (as seen in Prospect Park)
Always into a small highly specific publication and this new one on the gravestones of type designers is top notch. (By Gavin Morrison and Scott Myles with Katherine Small Gallery) ksmallgallery.com/blogs/events...
January 22, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Always into a small highly specific publication and this new one on the gravestones of type designers is top notch. (By Gavin Morrison and Scott Myles with Katherine Small Gallery) ksmallgallery.com/blogs/events...
As always, seeing all the people out in Prospect Park after a snowfall raises the spirits
January 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
As always, seeing all the people out in Prospect Park after a snowfall raises the spirits
I have a big, beautiful story on Jesse Aaron and how he found faces and figures in wood in the latest issue of Raw Vision magazine! It’s excerpted online with the full version in print rawvision.com/blogs/articl...
January 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I have a big, beautiful story on Jesse Aaron and how he found faces and figures in wood in the latest issue of Raw Vision magazine! It’s excerpted online with the full version in print rawvision.com/blogs/articl...
No better days to live close to Prospect Park ☃️
January 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
No better days to live close to Prospect Park ☃️
Hot off the presses, keeping the dream of print alive, it’s another issue I edited of @finebooks.bsky.social! It’s got stories on the writings of medieval women, a library of imaginary books, bookbinders in Cairo, maps as propaganda & much more! www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/winter...
December 23, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Hot off the presses, keeping the dream of print alive, it’s another issue I edited of @finebooks.bsky.social! It’s got stories on the writings of medieval women, a library of imaginary books, bookbinders in Cairo, maps as propaganda & much more! www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/winter...
Discovered that the Poetry Project has its entire newsletter archives online, with some great moments in time like this item in January 1973 for Gordon Matta-Clark's "Walls Paper" at $1.50/yard with the artist himself coming to install it for you www.poetryproject.org/publications...
November 30, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Discovered that the Poetry Project has its entire newsletter archives online, with some great moments in time like this item in January 1973 for Gordon Matta-Clark's "Walls Paper" at $1.50/yard with the artist himself coming to install it for you www.poetryproject.org/publications...
Restarting here my thread of observing the world underfoot while traveling with this weekend’s sightings of: the manhole covers of Memphis!
November 17, 2024 at 5:10 AM
Restarting here my thread of observing the world underfoot while traveling with this weekend’s sightings of: the manhole covers of Memphis!