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Geraldine Brooks

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1. “Part of New York. It hadn't gentrified up yet. Yes, now you can get 12 kinds of kombucha, but go ahead. Yeah, so he had learned that he couldn't figure out why his car battery was always being stolen. And then he realized that A scam and he could buy it back from the local auto parts dealer every day. So he realized that you have to take not only the key of your car, but also the battery when you left your car. So I thought that was quite amusing. And then the next day there was the large group seminar in the world room and I saw him across”

   2025-03-06 · On with Kara Swisher · Geraldine Brooks On the Art of Grieving and Spanning the Political Divide · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “And what's her profiling today? And we liked that because we felt like we were more than partners. We felt like we were almost one person. Right. But you met at Journalism School. Explain. I had been working as a newspaper reporter in Sydney for a couple of years, and then I was lucky enough to get a scholarship to do a master's at Columbia. And this is, you know, Australians love to go overseas and have an adventure abroad. So this was going to be my adventurer abroad. I was going to have a year in New York and hone my journalistic skills and then get back to Sydney and get on with my real life. That was the plan. But the first week of school, I went to a party on the upper west side and on the balcony was this cute blonde guy who was telling an amusing story about he was living down in alphabet city, which in those days was a rough”

   2025-03-06 · On with Kara Swisher · Geraldine Brooks On the Art of Grieving and Spanning the Political Divide · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “So we reported together in the Middle East, when I say together wasn't literally together, but we reported from opposite sides of the various conflicts. So if I was in Tunisia waiting for Arafat to talk to me at 2 o'clock in the morning, Tony would be in Israel chatting up Rabin and then we'd put the two together and likewise Iran and Iraq or Iraq and Saudi Arabia we would cover the conflicts from opposite sides. Sometimes we reported together but we often had a joint byline, Geraldine Brooks and Tony Horwitz or the other way around and in news meetings they just started referring to us as Hobro.”

   2025-03-06 · On with Kara Swisher · Geraldine Brooks On the Art of Grieving and Spanning the Political Divide · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT