by Hank Nuwer | Apr 11, 2026 | Book Review
I read daily and love reading. I also like reading book reviews by savvy reviewers like New Yorker/Slate reviewer Katy Waldman, particularly her review of The Brothers Karamazov (Bernard and Kurt Vonnegut) by Ginger Strand in Slate. Here are just a few of my book...
by Hank Nuwer | Mar 29, 2026 | Book Review, Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole
Related article: Relatives of Kurt Vonnegut enrolled as members in Nazi Party Charles J. Shields, And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life. Henry Holt and Company, (hardcover with introduction; paperback with introduction excised by publisher without explanation). ...
by Hank Nuwer | May 6, 2025 | Book Review, Creative Writing, Hank Nuwer Autobiography
Yesterday for the first time I read a sad, brilliant piece of creative nonfiction in The Georgia Review, a periodical my long-ago house mate once appeared in. And like my former house mate, the author of this story was a Pushcart Press award winner. The title is...
by Hank Nuwer | Apr 27, 2025 | Book Review, Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories
by Hank Nuwer: The urge begins as a mere impulse. “I could write a book,” someone thinks. “I should write a book.” While millions have confessed a similar urge, few start — let alone finish — the task. One who has done so is John B. Lang. Californian by birth and...
by Hank Nuwer | Apr 15, 2025 | Alaska Tales, Book Review
What happens after you find yourself mired in a precarious situation you could and should have avoided? That’s the premise driving “On the Old Denali Road,” a short story by Alaskan author Daryl Farmer in his collection “Where We Land,” published by...
by Hank Nuwer | May 2, 2024 | Book Review, Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories, Sports
Far from Randolph County: Publishing is like writing against the wind (First published in the Winchester News-Gazette, May 2, 2024 When I go to parties, I’m the least likely guest to don a lampshade for attention. Chances are you’ll find me by my lonesome in the...
