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Sue Hemberger
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Loves books, food, movies, cities, conversation, and trees. Sociable introvert. Deinstitutionalized academic.
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National Guard members chowing down on Voodoo Donuts.
October 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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And it’s not as if Portland hasn’t created its own donut-themed protest images in the past week:
October 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Curation should prove interesting…
Photo of a Barbara Kruger installation at the MOCA Geffen in LA. The text (in all caps with white letters against a bright red background) poses the following questions: WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO wIS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?
August 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Here are the first 33 I found!
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33 Cornell University Press books in two piles on a dining room table. Most titles here are books about early American history, but others are about education, print culture, contemporary urbanism, militarism, and sovereignty.
April 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Photo of 2 rectangular paper clips that are not only fun to look at but flatter than ordinary paper clips
February 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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He’s reprehensible.

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January 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Froggy Went a Courting. He and Miss Mousie still delight my (now 27yo) daughter.
December 25, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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Day 20 (of 20)
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Book Cover (maroon with taupe accents and white lettering) Title: Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Authors: Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar
November 30, 2024 at 5:47 AM
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Worn black paperback cover of Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge, described as the #1 Top of Conversation! #1 Best Seller from Coast-to-Coast. Illustration is a photo of a woman (not Raquel Welch — this is a pre-movie edition) in a star-spangled mono-kini and white boots and a cowboy hat, posed as if mid/dance routine.
November 29, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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Day 19 (of 20)
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Book cover with a birds-eye map of early Chicago showing sailboats where the river meets the lake. Superimposed over the muted but still colorful map is the book’s title — Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West and its author — William Cronin
November 29, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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Day 18 (of 20)
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Book cover. A black and white photo of Ralph Ellison, who appears to be seated in a home office/library, covers 3/4 of the cover. A vertical taupe-colored strip on the right edge of the cover indicates the title of the volume: The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison. Saul Bellow, John F. Callahan are credited with writing the preface and the editor’s introduction to the volume.
November 28, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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Day 17 (of 20)
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Black & white & bronze? book cover. Title is Disciple & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Author is Michel Foucault. In the center, there is an engraved image of a high-ceilinged cell with 9 figures inside and one in the background waving and looking into the cell (through the bars — unlike the reader whose view of the various people and activities inside is unimpeded). At the top of the cover, there is a blurb from the NYT Book Review stating that this is a work that “must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists and political activists.”
November 27, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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Day 16 (of 20)
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Off-white book cover. Background has pale, beige, largely illegible 18th century handwriting. The title of the book (in large black type, set in a chestnut colored box) is The Midwife’s Tale. Subtitle (in black cursive) is the Life of Martha Ballard, Based on her Diary, 1785-1812. Author is Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (her name is in chestnut type at the bottom). Cover (just below the title) also indicates (in a smaller typeface but all caps) that the book is a “winner of the Pulitzer Prize.” The smallest/most ordinary (black) type is a blurb from Carl Degler praising the author and her scholarship.
November 26, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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Day 15 (of 20)
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Bright (but not neon) green book cover with the title The Empire Writes Back. Subtitle is Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. Authors are Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffith, and Helen Tiffin. Routledge logo appears just below their names.
November 25, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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Variation on a theme: toppings for last weeks’ pozole verde!
Radish slivers, lime wedges, and shredded red cabbage on a grey cutting board.
November 24, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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Day 14 (of 20)
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Book cover, with five horizontal divisions. Predominant color is dark red with writing in black and a subdued shade of yellow. Title: Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two. Allan Berube is the author.
November 24, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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Day 13 (of 20)
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Pale yellow book cover with greyscale reproduction of the Flammarion engraving (depicting a pilgrim poking his head through a hole at the edge of one world and into another). Title: Signs Taken for Wonders. Author: Franco Moretti
November 23, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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Day 12 (of 20)
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Book Cover: Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Second Edition, Enlarged). Quotation from Science Magazine identifying the text as “A landmark in intellectual history.”
November 22, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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Day 11 (of 20)
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Book cover depicts a middle-aged Asian woman wearing a black shirt and a bright green apron standing behind a food-laden counter with a cooktop to her left, bamboo steamers and a wok ring suspended above her head, and shelves of plates and glasses behind her. She is arranging dumplings. Title is Mrs. Chiang’s Szechwan Cookbook. Authorship is attributed to Ellen Schrecker (with John Schrecker).
November 21, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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Day 10 (of 20)
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Cheesy orange book cover with lavender and white accents. An empty outline of a woman reading is juxtaposed atop another book cover depicting a man embracing a woman. Title is Reading the Romance : Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. Janice S. Radway is the author.
November 20, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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Day 9 (of 20)
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Book cover with a black/white/gray graphic of a winding road leading straight to a bottle. Title (on the left of the page near the center) is white-on-black in small letters: The Culture of Public Problems. The subtitle runs along the bottom of the image in a large font, all caps, dark red against a white background: Drinking-Driving and the Symbolic Order. The author’s name — Joseph R. Gusfield is black-on-white in the smallest type on the upper right hand side of the image.
November 19, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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Day 8 (of 20)
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Book cover. Illustration is of a vintage typewriter and a camera with a flash attachment sitting atop sheets of paper with indiscernible text and images. Title is SCOOP; Author is Evelyn Waugh.
November 18, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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Day 7 (of 20)
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Drab, UPS-colored, book cover. Title is equally off-putting — Unobtrusive Measures: Nonreactive Research in the Social Sciences. Four authors are listed (Webb, Campbell, Schwartz, and Sechrest)
November 17, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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Day 6 (of 20)
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November 16, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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Day 5 (of 20)
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November 15, 2024 at 3:13 PM