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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 were profiled by CNN and People magazine.The “Gosiaandhank” team collaborated on an article about Alaskan road trips for Phi Kappa Phi’s Forum Magazine.
Hank recently reviewed a biography of Kurt Vonnegut by Charles J. Shields
Order direct 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
Podcast in The Culture
Headshots for UAF play “Something in the Living Room”
Photos courtesy of AAF CLA. Hank Nuwer playing The Professor in the 2024 play "Something in the Living Room."
Delta Junction’s Hard Wok Cafe
Serendipity at the Hard Wok Cafe A cartoon in The New Yorker magazine last issue spoke to me. Old white-bearded Father Time stood on a street corner with a sign reading, “The End of Summer is near, and you still haven’t made any plans.” Too true, so on Saturday, Gosia...
Filming “Love Me!” this weekend
Gosia is playing in the UAF film Love Me!" by Nolan Everett as filming commences this weekend. I play "Uncle" Arnold. The UAF Film division cebrated its 13th birthday. Here's a long-ago photo of me as Lovborg in Hedda Gabler.
A Tribute to a Hunter Dying Young
Much of the pleasure in working as a journalist stems from opportunities to write outdoor columns and features for local and national magazines. My most moving assignment was writing a sad tribute column titled “To a Hunter Dying Young.” A lean, rugged and boyish...
Haleloke Kahauelopua, Randolph County’s refugee from Show Business
Far from Randolph By Hank Nuwer In the early 1950s an Admiral TV appeared in the Nuwer household’s living room. Because there were only four networks, even minor TV stars drew viewers the way Taylor Swift today transfixes fans. Everyone in America seemed to watch the...
Rep. David Eastman’s Immodest Proposal
"A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making them Beneficial to the Publick," commonly referred to in English Lit as "A Modest Proposal," is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and...
Good fences don’t always make good neighbors.
Good fences don’t always make good neighbors. By Hank Nuwer Leviticus 19:13 tells us, “Thou shall not oppress your neighbor.” That Bible quotation came back to me in Fairbanks, Alaska on Saturday at a brilliant, albeit disturbing performance of Native Gardens by...
Almost Iditarod time
It's that time of year! Time to brush up on which mushers are in and out at the Iditarod.
Another film project
I am excited to have auditioned successfully for the part of the uncle character in the upcoming UAF production of Love Me.