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.
A bit of turbulence: On the Ground
Flying the Unfriendly Skies By Hank Nuwer Stories of unruly passengers causing airline pilots to take unscheduled forced landings seem to make headlines more frequently. We read about miscreants doing all sorts of tomfoolery and dangerous acts: storming a...
Flashback: Spending Thanksgiving During the Pandemic, 2020
Let’s Talk Wild Turkey Today Hank Nuwer (First published, Thanksgiving 2020) No use of you and me complaining but Thanksgiving just won’t be the same this year. Rising numbers of Covid cases in Darke County, Ohio and Randolph County,...
The Great Greenville Peacock Plumage Caper
By Hank Nuwer, with photo by Goosia Nuwer Daily Advocate - June 9, 2022 0 Female peafowl are peahens. Male peafowl are peacocks. People who molest the birds are peabrains. This tearful tale of tail-feather thievery began late in the night of...
Indiana history: Union City’s Crown Jewel: The Carnegie Library
By Hank Nuwer, Archives “Books…are like TV for smart people,” actor Robert Redford declares in the film “A Walk in the Woods.” “Would you say you grew up poor?” “Oh, we grew up poor. But not impoverished.” “What’s the difference?” “The library.” — Pete Hamill...
A no-good skunk lit out for Nebraska. That skunk wasn’t hard to locate
By Hank Nuwer Fasten your seatbelt, reader. This is the story of George Washington Clear, born in 1849, the youngest son of Phillip and Mrs. Clear. On June 7, 1871, Clear married a young woman from Union City, IN, named Anna Moist. ...
A travel review of Denali National Park
Last Frontier Tales Making Memories on the Magic Mountain By Hank Nuwer First published in Cordova Times A visit of our Natalia to Alaska inspired my wife Gosia and me to get off our duffs and into the gorgeous country. The three of us agreed to...
Hank and Gosia in Poland: PRZYJACIOTKA Magazine
See Valdez, and Enjoy!
Last Frontier Tales Sea Lions and Whales and Otters and Puffins: Oh Boy! Travel Review: Stan Stephens Cruises By Hank Nuwer My wife Gosia, daughter Natalia, and myself could not have been more excited when we reached a road sign noting the empty lots where Old...
Paul Solka: Alaska Painter and Chronicler of Pioneer Life
Last Frontier Tales A Lost Treasure Found: Cordova Times Book Review Paul Solka: Alaska Painter and Chronicler of Pioneer Life By Hank Nuwer, Cordova Times Solka: In His Words and Art Ray Bonnell and Chuck Gray, Editors Fairbanks: Pingo Press, 2025; $25...