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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Zines this Saturday in Williamsburg! Looking forward to bringing my library of zines on topics from cemeteries to manhole covers to witch bottles to this gathering at Pete's Candy Store presented by the great Quimby's NYC. The excellent flier by Ayun Halliday is inspired by Quimby's shop cat Gracie.

Pete's Mini Zine Fest: Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211. Saturday, September 19, 2026, 2pm-7pm. FREE!

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I realize its time had been up for a while, but still a little sad to see the Guggenheim Bandshell at Lincoln Center turned to dust with little fanfare. The teardrop of concrete was by Eggers & Higgins and built in 1969. Glad I got a photo of it from its last winter

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

So exciting to receive copies of my forthcoming @3313books.bsky.social book on Woody Guthrie's 'Dust Bowl Ballads'! I think this 1940 album on ecological collapse; police brutality; mistreatment of migrants; & making art despite it all is as timely as ever www.bloomsbury.com/us/woody-gut...

Hand holding a copy of 'Dust Bowl Ballads' by Allison C. Meier on a beach with rides in the background

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This question is inspired by @besslovejoy.bsky.social’s fantastic story in the fall issue on tattered book treasures. www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/autumn...

Loved to Pieces article. Hand holding magazine.

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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/...

Cover of Fine Books & Collections magazine with a black and white photo of a woman standing among ruins

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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...

Pete's Mini Zine Fest: September 20, 2025, 2pm-7pm, Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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.

Title page for Live at the Village Vanguard by Max Gordon with inscription by Gordon to Hamill

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

This is just a sampling, but especially grim & depressing are the ones pitching my own articles, this one about poisonous books, to me.

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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

Hand holding a magazine titled Fine Books & Collections with a woman driving a car on the cover

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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...

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The Matta-Clark roses are now blooming!

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

From this weekend: the manhole covers of New Orleans!

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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...

Green square with text for the Goblin Market by Interesting Editions: March 21-30, with text from Christina Rossetti's poem

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

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/

Hand holding a zine that says "Follow Me: Angel Guides of the Victorian Cemetery" in front of a statue of an angel and a soldier

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

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...

Stick figure of 1.75 meters standing next to a violin string of .33 meters and a long string instrument string of 10 meters.

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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

Shelf of zines and magazines outside a store

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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....

Book with The King in Yellow on the cover

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

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

A shelf of books made from wood with titles of different trees

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The Center for Book Arts has a cool exhibit about “blooks,” or book-shaped objects! From book lighters to marble book memorial objects

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Radiant sunset witnessed tonight (as seen in Prospect Park)

Two people sit watching a sunset by a frozen lake

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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...

Hand holding a publication reading Last Words

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

As always, seeing all the people out in Prospect Park after a snowfall raises the spirits

People walking on a snowy landscape with a tree at center

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

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...

Hand holding a magazine with images of faces carved in wood

Hand holding a magazine with a photo of a man sitting on a wood sculpture

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

No better days to live close to Prospect Park ☃️

Snow in a park with people walking with a dog and umbrella

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

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...

Hand holding a magazine entitled Fine Books & Collections

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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...

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Restarting here my thread of observing the world underfoot while traveling with this weekend’s sightings of: the manhole covers of Memphis!

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Got to visit Ellis Island today before its open hours and there are few things I love more than behind-the-scenes museum dusting

Empty illuminated hall with American flags on either side and a person dusting a lamp at the end

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

The fall issue of @finebooks.bsky.social that I edited is out now! Stories on cookbook collecting, recovering a pioneering woman bookbinder, a photographer reframing the colonialism of archives & so much more!! store.finebooksmagazine.com/autumn-2024....

Hand holding a magazine with an image of a frying pan on it

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

This Saturday I’ll be at the Pete’s Candy Store Mini Zine Fest with brand new zines!! Here’s a preview & I’ll also have my back catalogue of various cemetery & city related zines. Stop by 2-7 & say hello! ✂️🖨️🖇️

Zine with a mermaid on it overlooking a lake

Flier for the Mini Zine Fest, 2-7pm on September 14

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Sometimes I get a story idea that’s so specific it’s hard to place, so it was fun to bring this reporting on augmented reality & cemeteries to the equally specific American Cemetery & Cremation magazine! www.kates-boylston.com/american-cem...

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

The summer issue of Fine Books magazine that I edited is alive! Pick up a copy for stories on endangered languages, book curses, Indigenous cartography, the Mexico City book scene, the enigmatic Vivian Maier & much more!! www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/summer...

Hand holding a magazine with a photograph of a woman with a camera on the cover

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 01/06/2024

I guess the most important update is I saw a wombat in a cemetery in Tasmania during my month of May away in Australia.

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Reporting from yesterday’s tree tour at Green-Wood that we are very close to it all happening 🌸

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

Hello the spring issue of the magazine I edit, @finebooks.bsky.social, is out in the world with stories on bird field guides, keeping letterpress alive, tiny dollhouse libraries & much more. It’s only $8, less than a drink at even a dive bar these days! www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/spring...

A hand holding a magazine with an arctic scene on the cover.

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

I joined an NYC Parks tour of Hart Island, the burial place for the unclaimed, unidentified & publicly interred. What a difference from visiting under DOC; you are now encouraged to spend time & take photos. I'm encouraged that this island of a million dead will have more visibility going forward.

Geese walk through grass with white concrete markers in the background

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Did you know that over the last three years Green-Wood Cemetery has planted thousands of crocuses and they are blooming right now??

Purple flowers blooming in front of mausoleum

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

Soft launching a new zine on Instagram—Manhole Covers: The World Underfoot!—celebrating the joy of observing utilitarian design while traveling www.instagram.com/p/C37zzzqLf-3/

A zine with a yellow cover and image of a fish is held over an NYC sewer manhole cover

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

I have high hopes for late afternoon snow creation action

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

I’ve missed the days when Brooklyn becomes a Bruegel painting

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

I need the story on the people always ready to ski in Brooklyn

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

The modernist curvy Nivola horses are back on the Upper West Side and I love them

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

Restocked my cemetery zines after almost selling out over the holidays which was fun but unexpected! www.etsy.com/shop/reading...

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

My favorite type of Prospect Park morning finally returns ☃️

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

The winter issue of Fine Books & Collections I edited is out now! Long live print! store.finebooksmagazine.com/winter-2024.... I'm also looking for writers & ideas on the world of books for 2024, reach out: allison@finebooksmagazine.com

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Last book event of the year compete at Chicago’s Graceland Cemetery! I don’t know if anyone else has almost exclusively done book events at cemeteries but it has been enjoyable to talk with people from different communities about how and why we care for our dead

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

A friend referred to people’s DIY Halloween decor efforts as “humanity affirming” and yes thank you Brooklyn for this month’s moments of joy.

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Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Entirely tagged G train in the system! Not a sight I’ve seen in a while 👀

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