Stories, Journalism & Vonnegut Bio Hank Nuwer
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.
They hung him high: a Shelbyville, Indiana true tale of shame and disgrace
When Fight Night Led to Mob Mayhem. By Hank Nuwer Randolph and Shelby County served as home to many distinguished citizens in the 1890s. However, rowdies also roamed the area. A custom on weekends in both counties for a time...
Why I’m a hard-bitten journalist
Alaska’s state bird is the “moose-quito,” so named by me because of their immense size and toughness. Our state’s mosquitoes are so mean that when you slap them, they slap you back. A 2017 report in the Cordova Times blamed climate change for sturdier...
A travel review of Cordova, Alaska for Lower 48ers by Hank Nuwer
My wife Gosia and I love visiting small cities in Alaska. The last two years, we’ve popped over to Sitka, King Salmon, Kodiak, Seward and Nome. This time we chose Cordova, Alaska. On the plane to Cordova we met our...
My Birthday Weekend in Cordova By Hank Nuwer
For my wife Malgorzata’s recent birthday, I bought a floral bouquet and, trying to be creative, a black-and-tan Louie’s Lunch Bucket from Duluth Trading Company ($89.95) to take to work. The bucket proved big enough to hold a six pack of soda pop,...
Contemplating the road least traveled at age 78
Ended my weekly column for Winchester, IN paper to put more time into something I've only dabbled in: writing short stories and longer memoir. Change is hard for me, where once it was easy, but this may be the right time. I've enjoyed seeing my stories and interviews...
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...