by Hank Nuwer | Aug 6, 2026 | Humor, True Crime
Photo: Louis Kenneth Neu by Hank Nuwer One casualty of shrinking newspapers is the disappearance of wonderfully weird stories that once filled their pages. When a murderer named Louis Kenneth Neu went to the gallows in Louisiana in 1935, the Indianapolis Star reported...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 29, 2026 | Humor, Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole
Excerpt from “Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole,” a bio-in-progress by Hank Nuwer Kurt Vonnegut described his father as a gentle, soft-spoken pacifist. Even so, Kurt (Doc) Vonnegut, Sr. had his limits. Two big dogs owned by neighbor Fred Wales, Sr., one...
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July 18, 2026 I was cleaning out my digital files today and came across an unpublished column (I pretended was) written by my dog Casey.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 10, 2026 | Hank Nuwer Autobiography, Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories, Humor
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,...
by Hank Nuwer | Mar 15, 2026 | Alaska Tales, Hank Nuwer Autobiography, Humor, Travel Reviews
My wife Gosia and I returned yesterday from a working vacation in Alaska. The mountains wore a majestic white cape of snow. As we drove hairpin turns on the Kenai Peninsula, the Avis rental car belched an ominous warning noise. Gulp, a dashboard icon predicted...
by Hank Nuwer | Mar 8, 2026 | Hank Nuwer Autobiography, Humor
My switch to Alaska citizen is complete. I have an Alaska voting card. I’m paying Alaska property taxes. My vehicle has an Alaska brown bear license plate where Indiana vanity plate Moby Van once resided. But most important, I qualified with Alaska DNR (at my advanced...
