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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.
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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
An Adventure in Great Asian Cuisine — Delta Junction, AK at the Hard Wok Cafe
by Hank Nuwer (First published in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, 9/6/2023) A cartoon in The New Yorker last week spoke to me and my wife Gosia. Old Father Time stood on a street corner with a sign reading, “The End of Summer is near, and you still haven’t made any...
Lusting in my heart: for a stamp collection
by Hank Nuwer I don’t gamble, but if I did my adrenaline might skyrocket as it did the night I entered an online Great North Auction for the stamp collection of the late Russell Hobart Green Jr. of Fairbanks. I knew exactly what was in the collection and had a pretty...
His Sister’s Keeper
Photo: the late former Florence Livingston Thurman Livingston, 12, and his sister Florence, 8, were typical kids enjoying life on a farm northeast of Union City. On Aug. 30, 1936, around 10 a.m., they decided to build a fire in the woods near their home. Thurman, a...
What’s It like to hit a Moose?
by Hank Nuwer Moose in Alaska are everywhere. You can’t escape them. When my wife Gosia and I take our favorite daily stroll through the University of Alaska’s splendid botanical gardens, we keep a wary eye out for the critters who come out of the...
Covering a Protest by Angry Minnesota Farmers Proved a Challenge.
Gaza protests at U.S. campuses took me back to memories of 1978 when I covered demonstrations by Minnesota farmers protesting a powerline being put up by the Cooperative Power Association (CPA). I donned suit and tie to interview CPA executives who defended their...
Literary Journalism: A Primer by Hank Nuwer
Hank Nuwer Feature Writing essay from the book Real Feature Writing by Abraham Aamidor When editors confront a writer whose feature stalled, they often say that the ailing story needs better flow and detail. In other words, they give writing suggestions that...
Running Against the Grain (Timmy Brown) by Roy Weaver, David Sullivan, Shawn Sriver
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...
Unintended causes should concern us all
It’s a story as old as the story of human progress. A new discovery or innovation heralded for its efficacy is suspected to have harmful effects that require ingenuity on the part of researchers to find an antidote to the unintended causes. I consider it compelling...
Hank Nuwer wins Best Columnist for 2023 in Alaska
The award was bestowed last weekend by the Alaska Press Club. Nuwer also won second place for his gumorous column titled "The Raven Whisperer."