Geraldine Brooks, HORSE: A Novel
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author Geraldine Brooks joins Zibby to discuss her latest novel Horse, an Amazon Best Book of the Year. Geraldine shares the inspiration behind the book (it involves a new mid-life hobby and a horse skeleton), the fears she had writing outside her own racial identity, and how the sudden death of her husband Tony altered the trajectory of her story. Zibby reads the beautiful afterword that was dedicated to Tony, and the two discuss how they have used writing as a lifeboat during moments of profound grief.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening |
| 0:06.8 | to right now. Thank you so much, called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. It is a daily podcast, |
| 0:12.0 | 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their |
| 0:18.2 | career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com, |
| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
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| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.3 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Geraldine Brooks is the author of Horse, a novel. |
| 1:01.6 | Australian-born Geraldine is an author and journalist who grew up in the western suburbs |
| 1:06.2 | of Sydney. |
| 1:07.4 | She attended Bethlehem College, Asheville, and the University of Sydney. |
| 1:11.3 | She worked as a reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald. She won the George Shackleton Australian News |
| 1:15.6 | Correspondent Scholarship, and she was a journalism master's program attendee at Columbia University |
| 1:20.9 | in New York City. She worked for the Wall Street Journal. She covered the Gulf War, where |
| 1:25.7 | she got an overseas press club award, along with her husband |
| 1:28.3 | Tony Horowitz, and then was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March. |
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