News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist. Laurie Hertzel. Minneapolis, MN: University of Min-nesota Press, 2010. 224 pp.

In her memoir, News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist, Laurie Hertzel makes short work of her first husband.

No, he wasn’t the subject of one of the many homicide stories published in the Duluth News-Tribune during Hertzel’s eighteen years on the staff. He is, rather, a very minor character in this coming-of-age story about Hertzel’s life at the mid-sized northern Minnesota daily.  [Read more...]