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.
Weekends
Weekends fly by all too fast, don’t they? One week ago Saturday my wife Gosia and I enjoyed the incredible vistas on the highway south of Delta Junction and north of Paxson. The next day I took Gosia for her first trip on the Dalton Highway, but we did not drive too...
Farewell to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Time has flown since a job recruiter contacted me and I inked a contract in November 2022. My first columns for the Daily News-Miner told of the driving challenges my wife Gosia and I faced as we moved from a house on the Indiana-Ohio border to Fairbanks by navigating...
Bob Knight: In Memoriam
During the late 1970s, 1980s and early ’90s, I was a contributing sports editor for Inside Sports, Sport and Success (business) magazines. It was a different era then and sportswriters like me writing 3,000- to 7,500-word features had a lot more access to athletes and...
A need to remove a threat to salmon
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...
A classroom runs through the farm
Far from Randolph County: A classroom runs through the farm Hank Nuwer, now with the Winchester News-Gazette long distance. His column is called "Far from Randolph County". https://www.winchesternewsgazette.com/ Chances are when you were back in school, one of your...
A time for friendship and unity at a time of world conflict
My thoughts this weekend rested on time spent living and writing in Randolph County, Indiana and our neighbors in Union City, Indiana. Among many things I like about the area is its strong Quaker mystique. I recall being so surprised to learn that Quaker men and women...
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: A Magical Ride to Wrangell, Alaska’s Rainbow Falls & Petroglyph Beach
GOLDEN HEART TALES TRAVEL Somewhere over the rainbow ... A visit to the scenic falls of Wrangell WRANGELL, ALASKA — Over time, I’ve tried to visit as many of Alaska’s small cities and villages as possible in short bursts of three-day stays. In that...
Misadventures of a Short-Term Expatriate
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...
Keeping the community in a community hospital
For someone with one of the most important mover-and-shaker positions in Fairbanks, Shelley Ebenel certainly looks relaxed as she arrives early for a meeting with the Daily News-Miner in a fifth-floor conference room. She opined that she rather likes the weather and...