Interviews and press
Interviews
Interview with Yvette Benavides, Texas Public Radio (audio)
Listen to the interview: Texas Public Radio
Interview with Sarah Simon of The North Shore Journal
"As Hertzel continued writing, the memoir became less about the single day her brother died and more about the long shadow it cast, the ways a family rearranges itself around a loss it never fully discusses. The book is as much about memory as it is about grief, and about the stories we inherit without realizing it. Shaping that material was not easy. Hertzel had to decide what belonged on the page and what did not, what she remembered clearly and what she could only approach through feeling."
Read the whole story here: North Shore Journal story
Interview with Luke Moravec on The North, 103.3 (audio)
Chatting with Caroline Leavitt on "A Mighty Blaze" (video)
i love this image--my book in front of our old house in Duluth.
Nice piece from Jay Gabler of the Duluth News-Tribune:
South Dakota Pubic Radio interview
On "Kare11 Saturday," Kare11 talks with Laurie Hertzel about "Ghosts"
Perfect Duluth Day interview of March 31, 2026:
https://www.perfectduluthday.com/2026/03/31/hertzel-explores-memories-ghosts-in-new-book/
Q&A with Claire Kirch of Publishers Weekly
Member Spotlight: https://authorsguild.org/member-spotlights/member-spotlight-laurie-hertzel/
Podcasts
photo: Maureen Gormley and Michael Lopez, Dakota County Library
The Writers Room, Dakota County Library
https://www.co.dakota.mn.us/libraries/About/Podcast
Superior Reads, with Lin Salisbury
https://soundcloud.com/wtip-community-radio/superior-reads_mar-26_hertzel
Chapter Break, with Midwest Writers Room
listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2217249/episodes/18675363