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Welcome. Grab a coffee and enjoy the story clearinghouse of two-time Alaska Press Club Suzan Nightingale Best Columnist Hank Nuwer with occasional photos by Malgorzata (Gosia) Nuwer. Scroll down for archived Realalaskadaily stories.
Hank Nuwer: University of Alaska (Fairbanks) adjunct professor Hank Nuwer lives, writes, and acts in northern Alaska. Hank Nuwer Bio. Alaska Hank Nuwer News.
Gosia Nuwer photographs Alaska and its wildlife. She and Hank reside in Fairbanks, Alaska, with 5 acres in remote Alaska and a vacation cabin in Poland.
Gosia and her husband Hank recently collaborated on an article about Alaskan road trips for Phi Kappa Phi’s Forum Magazine.
Hank reviewed “And So It Goes,” a biography of Kurt Vonnegut by Charles J. Shields
Link to Hank Nuwer’s Indiana University Press books on hazing
Podcast of “Weed in the Garden of Academe” by journalist Ian Mandt with interviewee Hank Nuwer
Nuwer interviewed by NPR’s Audie Cornish
Link to the Cordova Times
Podcast in The Culture
Read the Novel “Sons of the Dawn: A Basque Odyssey” here by Hank Nuwer
FINAL COPY Sons of the Dawn By Hank Nuwer A novel of Old Nevada z "Better beans and...
A Victim Accuses His Killer Before Dying
By Hank Nuwer A miner from Greece lay mortally wounded in the brush at Cordova on September 27, 1914. The victim called to a startled passerby. “I’ll give you five dollars if you help me to the hospital,” he said. The passerby...
Alaskan Coal Mutiny of 1911 (by Hank Nuwer)
If the citizens of Cordova of 1911 were to adopt a slogan, it might be “Take this coal and shove it.” And shove it or, more accurately, shovel it they did—by the ton. The brouhaha began back in 1906. President Teddy Roosevelt’s...
The Vigilantes and the Crooked Sheriff
A Dirty Lawman Gets a Second Chance By Hank Nuwer Blackford County Sheriff Ira M. Barton was 49 when a photo of him with wide, hooded eyes appeared in a Muncie newspaper on December 29, 1931. A headline read “Jailed!” A...
Expatriate Games
Seven to nine years ago, I commuted from the U.S. to Poland to court my now-wife Gosia, and she did the same in reverse, meeting me by turns in Alaska and Indiana. We were good friends for two years before getting hitched, although I assure you that we both were...
Curse you, Lee Marvin (Humor) by Hank Nuwer
Flying the Unfriendly Skies By Hank Nuwer Although I fly frequently, I don’t know any unruly passengers. Except one, I admit. Me. This incident occurred the time I boarded a flight to Minneapolis and buried my nose in an airline magazine. Vaguely, as I read, the...
Kurt Vonnegut’s “Lost Game” HQ (Headquarters) Now on sale
To amuse his children, struggling fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut in 1956 devised a boardgame he called HQ, short for Headquarters. Wait, a pacifist invented a war game? True enough, the reasoning perhaps being that playing at war bore no resemblance to the real thing....
Let there be Light: a Winchester Cornerstone Moment By Hank Nuwer
The year 1889 brought prosperous times to Winchester and Randolph County. It seemed as if the good times never would end. Few imagined the Panic of 1893 and its consequences lasting clear into 1897. But national pride was everywhere in 1889. Inventors went wild with...
Interview with author Hank Nuwer, Hazing Expert,Novelist, Columnist, Writing Conference instructor
April 26, 2023 (updated) Faculty Interviews, MWW E-pistle, News Hank Nuwer is best known for his four young adult and adult books on the topic of hazing in society-including High School Hazing. He teaches journalism at Franklin College, Indiana but speaks on hazing at...