by Hank Nuwer | Mar 11, 2025 | Alaska Tales, Hank Nuwer Autobiography
by Hank Nuwer Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald won acclaim for two novels. The first was “This Side of Paradise” in 1920. It was a semi-autobiographical novel about a Princeton student who chases fleshly pleasures like the rest of his Lost Generation. The second was the...
by Hank Nuwer | Jan 29, 2025 | Hank Nuwer Autobiography
Where to start my tale? With my dog’s near-death experience, his intestines neatly sawed in five parts? No, too grim. I want to tell you what made my dog Casey so special, but what to say? I have no heroic rescue to recount. No climactic moment to recall when my...
by Hank Nuwer | Nov 29, 2024 | Hank Nuwer Autobiography
From the Cordova Times pf November 29, 2024 My wife Gosia and I enjoyed two Thanksgiving meals this week. Only a few days remain before our community theater Christmas comedy Twas the Night Before Christmas opens. So, the cast members came over to our kitchen last...
by Hank Nuwer | Feb 1, 2024 | Hank Nuwer Autobiography, Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories, Humor
By Hank Nuwer My wife Gosia’s dream to ride at top speed in a stockcar will come true next month. That’s her birthday gift from me. 10 years ago, I seized my own stockcar opportunity on the Lucas track in Clermont, Ind. “Dear Hank. Congratulations. Drivetech... by Hank Nuwer | Apr 18, 2023 | Alaska Tales, Hank Nuwer Autobiography, Humor
Link: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Golden Heart Tales Cutting through my first Alaskan winter Hank Nuwer I recently sat for a fourth haircut since my arrival in Fairbanks mid-January. My wife Gosia cut me first. The second was a stylist shop near the Daily News-Miner.... by Hank Nuwer | Mar 8, 2023 | Creative Writing, Hank Nuwer Autobiography
My personality was formed by two different worlds I inhabited before I was 20 when I set out to earn a living as a writer and professor. I lived then in tough Buffalo, New York, neighborhoods during the week and on my two grandparents’ bucolic farms on weekends and...