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.
The movie wasn’t so hot
Soon after I turned 18 and secured my driver license, I asked a pal named Mary to go to a drive-in movie with me. It was my first time, and I begged my father to use his brand new ’65 Ford. Other friends told me wild drive-in stories. Some stuffed other friends into...
The king and I
By Hank Nuwer Guarding a former king was a royal pain My response to the ascendency to the throne of King Charles III is simply to stifle a yawn. Hey, I’ve suffered a personal run-in with the British Crown. I have a right to my opinion. I remember well that July day...
Good news bears: Vote for your favorite chunky hunky
One of the best Alaska traditions to grip the imagination of the world is Fat Bear Week, with voting beginning at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Alaska time. The event was started nine years ago as Fat Bear Tuesday by Mike Fitz, then a Katmai National Park ranger and now the...
Minto, Alaska
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...
What matters is how you “plate” the game
Last week I found my wife Gosia and our visitors from London and Poland in an excited state. Gosia explained that a raptor swooped out of the sky, and its wings blocked her view from the van’s windshield. Gosia braced for impact that never came. At the moment of...
Bright skies, Little City: Fairbanks, Alaska. Home to Auroras
What an exciting and beautiful week for two relatives from London and Gosia’s aunt from Warsaw to visit us. Their big dream was to see an aurora and the skies over Fairbanks. Late night Monday and early Tuesday morning appeared an aurora shade of green I only have...
On the Antlers of a Dilemma
The escape of a wildlife center yearling male moose has resulted in tense correspondence between its director and Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Here is what has occurred. A docile moose named Duck Moses that escaped from Kroschel Wildlife Center on...
An American nightspot with European flair: The Library Bar and Bites; Fairbanks, Alaska
Sophisticated visitors to Fairbanks may appreciate a relative newcomer named the Library Bar and Bites at 603 Lacey street. Founder and co-owner Larry Lowery prides himself on the design of the interior and likes showing a video of the bleak, empty premises before his...
The life lessons learned from Jim Kjelgaard’s outdoor books
My boyhood was spent in two cultures: Polish on my mother’s side, German-speaking Alsatian on my father’s. I used to tell my blue-collar father I longed to see Europe, a continent he saw through three vision blocks as a Sherman tank driver all of World War II. He saw...