by Hank Nuwer | Aug 16, 2026 | Alaska Tales
August 17, 2 pm Alaska time: The article below was a response to this short item published 22 hours ago. I’ve since found answers to a couple of my questions, but I think more answers will be heard before long. This is what I read in the Fairbanks Daily...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 15, 2026 | Hank Nuwer Autobiography
Thoughts on Reaching Age 80 By Hank Nuwer I grew up in a family where my mother’s people and my father’s people died at an old age. My father’s dad lived to 86. My mother’s dad lived to 95. I was born on August 19, 1946, just before the Nuremberg Trials began. A...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 13, 2026 | Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole
The major headlines surrounding Kurt Vonnegut involve his estate launching a high-profile federal lawsuit against book banning and Purdue University purchasing his museum and library to secure its long-term future. [1, 2] The Vonnegut v. Utah Federal Lawsuit The...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 12, 2026 | Book Review, Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole
Book Review by Hank Nuwer A strange, disconcerting use of point of view mars Dan Wakefield’s bio for young adults, Kurt Vonnegut: The Making of a Writer, $23.95 U.S. The cover’s sprawling type looks like a ransom note with underarm hair. For me the biggest...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 12, 2026 | Book Review, Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories, Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole
As an adult and published essayist, Kay’s nonfiction and interviews with the press frequently refer to his family’s diminished financial circumstances during the Great Depression. During the summer of 1942, Kay wrote in his Sun column that he had worked for a mere 17...
