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...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 2, 2026 | Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories, Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole
Excerpt, “No Checks in the Mail,” Information taken from “Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention.” In-progress biography of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. by Hank Nuwer Hank Nuwer, adjunct professor of journalism, University of Alaska,...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 26, 2026 | Alaska Tales, Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories
Excerpt from a work-in-progress, Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention. by Hank Nuwer Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. said in Palm Sunday that his relative was a “cultivated eccentric” as the family historian John Rauch, Sr., had once described the...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 25, 2026 | Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories, Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole
Excerpt from a work-in-progress, a biography of Kurt Vonnegut, by Hank Nuwer Kurt Vonnegut: “The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention” by Hank Nuwer Indianapolis in 1852 had years of growth ahead before it could rank itself a city of significance. A...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 25, 2026 | Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories, Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole
Kurt Vonnegut’s Ancestry: Part One (excerpted from future biography of Vonnegut by Hank Nuwer) “Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention. ” by Hank Nuwer The Vonnegut family’s earliest forbear in America was Johanna Juliana (Julie)...
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,...
