Vonnegut Bio; Hank Nuwer Stories
Grab a coffee and enjoy the story clearinghouse of Hank Nuwer with photos of Alaska and its wildlife by Malgorzata (Gosia) Nuwer.
You’ll find that I’ve added some finished and partially finished biography-in-progress of Kurt Vonnegut, “The Man in the Hole.”
Hank Nuwer’s Indiana University Press books on hazing. Podcast in The Culture
Podcast of “Weed in the Garden of Academe” with Hank Nuwer
Scroll down for archived Realalaskadaily stories.Thank you for reading. Got a compliment or gripe? Drop a line to Hjnuwer@Alaska.edu. Gosia and I want to keep this site ad-free. Trying to raise funds for last-minute research on my Kurt Vonnegut biography: “Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention.” (“Not authorized, but authentic scholarship”). Your donation would be so helpful: Hank Nuwer, PO Box 73446; Fairbanks, AK 99707-3446.
Cordova Times First-Place Column
Thank you to the Cordova Times for announcing the 2024 Suzan Nightingale Column award from Alaska Press Club. Cordova Times contributor wins first for best column at Alaska Press Club awards The Cordova Times Cordova Times columnist Hank Nuwer won first place for the...
2024 Alaska Press Club winners
The Alaska Press club winners have been announced. I'm blessed to have my Cordova Times column selected Best Column for second straight year. Links: https://alaskapressclub.com/contest/
Sportcut.com revisited
26 years ago, I denounced and rejected a policy for freelancers by Sportcut.com. About that time, Sportcut.com and Pete Rose announced a new scheme to get him reinstated into baseball despite his gambling on baseball. Then, not with a bang but a whimper, the lights...
Nebraska/Alaska Fiction Writer Daryl Farmer: A Review, Hank Nuwer
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...
Frank Butler & Annie Oakley: Stuck to Their Guns
By Hank Nuwer The love story of Frank E. Butler and his dead-shot bride began at a shooting match. He was a professional marksman with a male shooting partner. They traveled all over the Midwest in search of shooting matches....
A no-good skunk lit out for Nebraska. That wasn’t far enough to disappear.
By Hank Nuwer This is the story of George Washington Clear, born in 1849, the youngest son of Phillip and Mrs. Clear. On June 7, 1871, Clear married a young woman from Union City, IN, named Anna Moist. George and Anna soon raised a baby they...
The horrific 1930 Ohio Penitentiary fire killed a war veteran
By Hank Nuwer The Greenville Democrat said James J. (J.J.) Webster looked too dignified to be a criminal. “Rather did he appear as a bank clerk,” the paper said. Tall and dark, Webster wore spectacles and a brown business suit at his trial. The...
Wash, fold, and stab. Murder in a Chinese laundry.
By Hank Nuwer I became fascinated with the history of 19th century Chinese workers in America while conducting research for my historical novel, Sons of the Dawn: A Basque Odyssey.” In one chapter, an Idaho buckaroo attempts to cut off the queue...
Ice cream treat
Near Darke By Hank Nuwer When Gosia and I moved to Union City, Ind., we stopped by an antique and nostalgia store on 236 N. Columbia Street, Union City, Indiana. The building over time served many owners. It hosted a civic club, dry cleaners, a vacuum cleaner store, a...