Creative Nonfiction, Journalism, & Alaska Tales by Hank Nuwer of Fairbanks, AK
My Travel Blog
Welcome, Guests
Grab a coffee and enjoy the story clearinghouse of two-time Alaska Press Club Suzan Nightingale Best Columnist Hank Nuwer with occasional photos by Malgorzata (Gosia) Nuwer. Scroll down for archived Realalaskadaily stories.
Gosia Nuwer photographs Alaska and its wildlife. She resides in Fairbanks, Alaska. Gosia and Hank enjoy 5 acres in remote Alaska and a vacation cabin in Poland.
Links:
Hank Nuwer’s Indiana University Press books on hazing
Podcast of “Weed in the Garden of Academe” by journalist Ian Mandt with interviewee Hank Nuwer
Nuwer interviewed by NPR’s Audie Cornish
Link to the Cordova Times
Podcast in The Culture
Thank you for reading. Got a compliment or gripe? Drop me a line at Hjnuwer@Alaska.edu.
Casey Dog’s Story
July 18, 2026 I was cleaning out my digital files today and came across an unpublished column (I pretended was) written by my dog Casey. Casey died in 2019. I miss him still. I dated and then married my wife Gosia. Before Casey, she had been afraid of dogs. Before...
Archival Records Reveal Nazi Party Membership of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s Relatives
By Hank Nuwer, written for my Cordova Times (news outlet of Alaska) column: July 16, 2026. That article was edited for space. The full, updated, and complete version is below. Thank you. HN German soldiers captured Army scout Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in December of 1945...
Review: Collier’s Magazine’s reboot sputters. But there’s hope for Issue Two.
By Hank Nuwer Collier’s magazine once flourished as one of the most-read publications in America. Kurt Vonnegut fans celebrate the tale of his discovery by Collier’s fiction editor Knox Burger. Publishing a story in Collier’s encouraged Vonnegut to keep writing–even...
A bit of turbulence: On the Ground
Flying the Unfriendly Skies By Hank Nuwer Stories of unruly passengers causing airline pilots to take unscheduled forced landings seem to make headlines more frequently. We read about miscreants doing all sorts of tomfoolery and dangerous acts: storming...
Flashback: Spending Thanksgiving During the Pandemic, 2020
Let’s Talk Wild Turkey Today Hank Nuwer (First published, Thanksgiving 2020) No use of you and me complaining but Thanksgiving just won’t be the same this year. Rising numbers of Covid cases in Darke County, Ohio and Randolph County,...
The Great Greenville Peacock Plumage Caper
By Hank Nuwer, with photo by Goosia Nuwer Daily Advocate - June 9, 2022 0 Female peafowl are peahens. Male peafowl are peacocks. People who molest the birds are peabrains. This tearful tale of tail-feather thievery began late in the night of...
Indiana history: Union City’s Crown Jewel: The Carnegie Library
By Hank Nuwer, Archives “Books…are like TV for smart people,” actor Robert Redford declares in the film “A Walk in the Woods.” “Would you say you grew up poor?” “Oh, we grew up poor. But not impoverished.” “What’s the difference?” “The library.” — Pete Hamill...
A no-good skunk lit out for Nebraska. That skunk wasn’t hard to locate
By Hank Nuwer Fasten your seatbelt, reader. This is the story of George Washington Clear, born in 1849, the youngest son of Phillip and Mrs. Clear. On June 7, 1871, Clear married a young woman from Union City, IN, named Anna Moist. ...
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei & Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Drei Mitglieder aus Kurt Vonnegut's Verwandtschaft – Kurt Lindener (Ehemann von Tante Irma Vonnegut Lindener), Onkel Rudolph Lieber und Hauptmann Erwin Herber – waren registrierte Mitglieder der NSDAP. Lesen Sie einen Auszug aus Hank Nuwers in Arbeit befindlicher...