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.
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...
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...