News to Me: Adventure of an Accidental Journalist by Laurie HertzelThe story of how Laurie Hertzel fell into journalism, starting as the newsroom clerk at the Duluth News-Tribune in the 1970s and becoming a reporter almost against her will. It's a sort of coming-of-age story, and a look at newsrooms back in the days of fedoras and typewriters, and the experiences of a woman in a man's world. Parts of it are pretty funny--hopefully, the parts the author intended.
BIOGRAPHY 
Laurie Hertzel is the Senior Editor for Books and Special Projects at the
Star Tribune, where she has worked for 14 years. Previously, she was a senior editor of
Minnesota Monthly magazine, and a reporter and editor at the
Duluth News-Tribune for nearly 20 years. She has had Fellowships at Duke University and the James Thurber House, and has been a speaker and faculty member at the Nieman Conferences on Narrative Writing and Editing at Harvard
University.
BOOK LAUNCHSeptember 7The Loft Literary Center
Minneapolis
SIGNINGS AND APPEARANCES
7 p.m. Aug. 31
Write-On Radio, KFAI-FM
7:30 p.m., Sept. 13Magers & Quinn, Minneapolis
7 p.m. Sept. 16, book launchFitger's, Duluth
6:30 p.m., Sept. 20Talk on memoir and creative nonfiction
Mounds View Public Library
7 p.m. Sept. 28
Talk on book clubs
Grand Rapids Public Library
4 p.m. Sept. 29Talk, Tower Hall
College of St. Scholastica
7 p.m. Oct. 6Micawber's Books
St. Paul
2 p.m. Oct. 16
Cross River Heritage Society
Schroeder, Minn.
WEBSITEwww.lauriehertzel.comBLOGhttp://lifewiththreedogs.blogspot.comOTHER BOOKSThey Took My Father: American Finns in Stalin's RussiaUM Press, 2004
Real Feature Writing(contributed one chapter) 2006.
PUBLISHERUniversity of Minnesota Press
PURCHASEIndie Boundor
Amazon
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