Dispatches, Stories & Journalism: Hank Nuwer
Grab a coffee and enjoy the story clearinghouse of Hank Nuwer with photos of Alaska and its wildlife by Malgorzata (Gosia) Nuwer.
Hank Nuwer’s Indiana University Press books on hazing. Podcast in The Culture
Podcast of “Weed in the Garden of Academe” with Hank Nuwer
Scroll down for archived Realalaskadaily stories.Thank you for reading. Got a compliment or gripe? Drop a line to Hjnuwer@Alaska.edu. Gosia and I want to keep this site ad-free. Trying to raise funds for last-minute research on my Kurt Vonnegut biography: “Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention.” (“Not authorized, but authentic scholarship”). Your donation would be so helpful: Hank Nuwer, PO Box 73446; Fairbanks, AK 99707-3446.
A Small Preview of the Long Michael Paiella Chapter
Excerpt from a biography-in-progress by Hank Nuwer "Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention." by Hank Nuwer If a POW in Dresden found a cache of food, he tipped other prisoners after returning to the shattered streets. A common...
Glenn Miller: moonlight Sayonara
Excerpt from a work-in-progress, a biography of Kurt Vonnegut, by Hank Nuwer Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention. by Hank Nuwer The weather stunk from England deep into Germany the night of December 15th. Freezing rain and snow...
The story of Peter Lieber, Kurt Vonnegut’s paternal great-grandfather
Excerpt from a work-in-progress, a biography of Kurt Vonnegut, by Hank Nuwer Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention. by Hank Nuwer The grandfather of Edith Lieber Vonnegut was the family patriarch Peter Lieber, born May 27, 1824, in Germany, one...
Excerpt from Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole A Life of Reinvention
Excerpt from a work-in-progress, a biography of Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention. by Hank Nuwer Chapter One: Oodles of Doodles Kurt Vonnegut Jr. liked to joke that he never asked to be born. Whenever he put his welcomed...
Indianapolis industrial accident in 1875 claimed the life of the nephew of Kurt Vonnegut’s paternal great-grandfather
Excerpt from a work-in-progress, a biography of Kurt Vonnegut, by Hank Nuwer Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention. by Hank Nuwer Josephine Andre Mueller (her remarried name) lived a life marked by many tragedies. She was the sister-in- law of...
Death of a Salesman: How Clemens Vonnegut Really Did Die
Excerpt from a work-in-progress, a biography of Kurt Vonnegut, by Hank Nuwer Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention. by Hank Nuwer Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. said in Palm Sunday that his relative was a “cultivated eccentric” as the family historian John...
Exclusive: The Indianapolis Partnership of Charles Volmer & Clemens Vonnegut, Jr.
Excerpt from a work-in-progress, a biography of Kurt Vonnegut, by Hank Nuwer Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention. by Hank Nuwer Indianapolis in 1852 had years of growth ahead before it could rank itself a city of significance. A struggling...
Exclusive from Hank Nuwer’s forthcoming Kurt Vonnegut bio: Ancestor Johanna Juliana (Julie) Junghans of Dresden
Kurt Vonnegut’s Ancestry: Part One (excerpted from future biography of Vonnegut by Hank Nuwer) "Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention. " by Hank Nuwer The Vonnegut family’s earliest forbear in America was Johanna Juliana (Julie) Junghans. She...
Blue Eggs: Short Fiction by Hank Nuwer
Xavier Lysiak rearranged the papers on his writing table. Today he planned to polish his dissertation, his ticket to a terminal degree and a teaching career. Now his cell phone rang, and he read the caller ID. “I’m handling a tragic mess at Dotty’s place,” his boss...