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.
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.
San Francisco’s last Super Bowl
In January 1986, I profiled Bill Walsh and the San Francisco Giants for Inside Sports magazine: Read it here at my web page at https://www.hanknuwer.com/the-winning-mind-of-san-francisco-and-former-stanford-coach-bill-walsh-by-hank-nuwer-inside-sports-magazine/
Alaska’s long deep freeze ends
After weeks of -40F and -30 and -20 temperatures, we in Fairbanks get two days of respite with temps in plus thirties. The coyotes and moose have been coming out of the deep snows to feed by the highway. Happy a chinook is here! Photo is of a young coyote snagging...
A lovely, friendly outpost in the Interior
Note: This trip was made right before the early snows fell in October. I held the story in hopes the roadhouse might open back up. It was published in the Winchester (IN) News-Gazette as a column. Photo is by Malgorzata Wroblewska Nuwer. Far from Randolph An oasis...
Hazing Culture podcast
HANK NUWER & HAZING CULTURE Writer and author of several books including Hazing: Destroying Young Lives, Hank Nuwer, discusses the various forms that hazing can take, why he started tracking data of deaths and injuries, a history of tragic incidents, the functions...
You think Frank Lloyd Wright started out like this?
By Hank Nuwer Whether by blood or by marriage, I have been cursed all my life with family that make nice things with no effort. I, on the other hand, grew up artistically challenged. I became aware of this deficiency in the second grade. One summer I labored in...
Take me for a ride in your car-car
By Hank Nuwer My wife Gosia’s dream to ride at top speed in a stockcar will come true next month. That’s her birthday gift from me. 10 years ago, I seized my own stockcar opportunity on the Lucas track in Clermont, Ind. “Dear Hank. Congratulations. Drivetech...
Putting on a poopy face at Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park in Cross Creek, Fla.
By Hank Nuwer “You sure put on a poopy face when something doesn’t go your way,” my wife Gosia said to me. I walked with dejection beside her as we headed toward the parking lot of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park in Cross Creek, Fla. “It’s not a poopy...
The agony of loss: Out-of-control wildfires
By Hank Nuwer In May of 1972 in Northern New Mexico, I earned my fire-fighter card from the Forest Service. The training at Hermit’s Peak mountain was unpaid. The fire fighters worked us trainees hard. I was in good condition, easily completing all tests. I recall the...