by Hank Nuwer | Jul 22, 2026 | Creative Writing, Hazing, True Crime
Carl Dingens (team photo), Row Two, Blonde hair, second from right Carl L. Dingens, Cornell 1896: Carl Louis Dingens died in Buffalo on April 30, 1927..He was born in Buffalo March 22, 1873, the son of Joseph A. and Julia G. Dingens. He attended Canisius School...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 19, 2026 | Hank Nuwer Autobiography, Humor
July 18, 2026 I was cleaning out my digital files today and came across an unpublished column (I pretended was) written by my dog Casey.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...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 14, 2026 | Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole
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...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 14, 2026 | Book Review
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...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 12, 2026 | Hank Nuwer Autobiography, Travel Reviews
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 a...
