Author Laurie Hertzel will be in Northern Minnesota this September and October promoting her new book News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist.

Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010
7-8:30 pm
Fitger’s Complex
Spirit of the North Theater
600 E. Superior St., 3rd Fl.
Duluth, MN 55802
218-727-9077

Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010
7 pm
Grand Rapids Public Library
111 Library Street NE
Grand Rapids, MN 49503
616-988-5400

Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010
2 pm
Cross River Heritage Center
7932 West Highway 61
Schroeder, MN 55613
218-663-7706

News to Me is the adventurous story of Laurie Hertzel’s journey into the bustling world of journalism in the mid-1970s. It is the chronicle of a small-city newspaper on the cusp of transformation, an affectionate portrait of Duluth and its people, and the account of a talented, persistent journalist who witnessed it all and was changing right along with it.

For more information on News to Me, including the table of contents, visit the book’s webpage:
upress.umn.edu/Books/H/hertzel_news.html

About the Author:
Laurie Hertzel grew up in Duluth and spent nearly twenty years at the Duluth News Tribune as a newsroom clerk, librarian, copy editor, beat reporter, feature writer, news editor, and columnist. Her journalistic work has won numerous national awards, and her short fiction was honored with the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize. Currently books editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Hertzel is coauthor of They Took My Father: Finnish Americans in Stalin’s Russia, also available from the University of Minnesota Press.

Praise for News to Me:
“This affectionate and insightful memoir may recount Laurie Hertzel’s days at the Duluth News Tribune but it will resonate with anyone who has loved newspapers and newspaper reporting.” –Louise Kiernan

“Laurie is a top notch storyteller and this book is an intimate and entertaining look at a wonderful career in journalism.” –Cathy Wurzer

“I thought journalists’ lives-aside from the stories we write about others-were ho-hum affairs. That was before I read Laurie Hertzel’s honest, engaging and witty memoir about working at her hometown newspaper in Duluth. ” –Lake Superior Magazine