Listen to my conversation with Laurie Hertzel, former book editor of the Star Tribune, about her memoir, Ghosts of Fourth Street, written from the perspective of nine-year-old Laurie about her childhood in Duluth and the death of her older brother. Hear her thoughts on the importance of storytelling and the pleasures and pitfalls of writing about family.
Lin Salisbury is the producer and host of Superior Reads on WTIP Radio 90.7 Grand Marais, and on the web, and has hosted New York Times bestelling authors, National Book Award winners, Minnesota Book Award winners, and Pulitzer Prize winning authors on her monthly show featuring author interviews and book reviews. She is currently at work on a memoir, Crazy for You, and a novel, The Violet Hour Book Club. She is the recipient of two Minnesota State Arts Board grants, and has been awarded the Lake Superior Writers Creative Nonfiction Award and a Loft Mentor Series fellowship in Creative Nonfiction.
