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The Independent, October 27, 2022
Netflix's Jeffrey Dahmer Series is Everything that's wrong with True Crime
"Now a mother, author, podcast host, criminal justice reform advocate and “glorified karaoke singer,” Amanda Knox tells Bevan Hurley she’s trying to do true crime the right way."
Netflix's Jeffrey Dahmer Series is Everything that's wrong with True Crime
"Now a mother, author, podcast host, criminal justice reform advocate and “glorified karaoke singer,” Amanda Knox tells Bevan Hurley she’s trying to do true crime the right way."
Der Spiegel, September 7, 2022 (German)
How a miscarriage of justice ruined Amanda Knox's life
"They called her the "angel with the ice eyes": 15 years ago, Amanda Knox was arrested in Italy for a murder she did not commit. The time in prison haunts her to this day - just like the hatred of many people."
How a miscarriage of justice ruined Amanda Knox's life
"They called her the "angel with the ice eyes": 15 years ago, Amanda Knox was arrested in Italy for a murder she did not commit. The time in prison haunts her to this day - just like the hatred of many people."
The Times UK, November 23, 2021
Amanda Knox: ‘I want my daughter to exist in a world that’s kinder to her than it was to me’
"It’s 14 years since the death of Meredith Kercher. Knox is now married, has a child and is still fighting for her reputation."
Amanda Knox: ‘I want my daughter to exist in a world that’s kinder to her than it was to me’
"It’s 14 years since the death of Meredith Kercher. Knox is now married, has a child and is still fighting for her reputation."
The New York Times, October 22, 2021
Amanda Knox Was Exonerated. That Doesn’t Mean She’s Free.
"It’s the paradox of being “Amanda Knox,” even so many years later: torn between wanting to live an anonymous existence — she fantasizes about moving to a remote village in Germany and becoming a seamstress — and wanting to control the narrative about her; wary of the media who disparaged her, but needing it to promote her professional endeavors; criticized for being so public about her life, but unable to exist privately without the baggage that comes with her name."
Amanda Knox Was Exonerated. That Doesn’t Mean She’s Free.
"It’s the paradox of being “Amanda Knox,” even so many years later: torn between wanting to live an anonymous existence — she fantasizes about moving to a remote village in Germany and becoming a seamstress — and wanting to control the narrative about her; wary of the media who disparaged her, but needing it to promote her professional endeavors; criticized for being so public about her life, but unable to exist privately without the baggage that comes with her name."
Tablet Magazine, August 12, 2021
Interview with Amanda Knox
“On July 29, Amanda Knox published a thread on Twitter criticizing the new Matt Damon movie Stillwater for profiting off her name. Both Damon and Stillwater director Tom McCarthy said the movie was inspired by Knox’s life—by which they meant the years in her early twenties when Knox was imprisoned in Italy after being convicted of a murder for which she was later acquitted and fully exonerated by the Italian Supreme Court.”
Interview with Amanda Knox
“On July 29, Amanda Knox published a thread on Twitter criticizing the new Matt Damon movie Stillwater for profiting off her name. Both Damon and Stillwater director Tom McCarthy said the movie was inspired by Knox’s life—by which they meant the years in her early twenties when Knox was imprisoned in Italy after being convicted of a murder for which she was later acquitted and fully exonerated by the Italian Supreme Court.”
NPR All Things Considered, August 7, 2021
Amanda Knox: 'Stillwater' Movie Repeats 'Fiction' Pushed By Italian Prosecutor
“It’s been 10 years since Knox was freed from that Italian prison. But, despite attempts to move on with her life, the “Amanda Knox saga” continues to follow her. The new film Stillwater, which fictionalizes elements of her story, has prompted Knox to speak out about how it feels to lose control of her own narrative.”
Amanda Knox: 'Stillwater' Movie Repeats 'Fiction' Pushed By Italian Prosecutor
“It’s been 10 years since Knox was freed from that Italian prison. But, despite attempts to move on with her life, the “Amanda Knox saga” continues to follow her. The new film Stillwater, which fictionalizes elements of her story, has prompted Knox to speak out about how it feels to lose control of her own narrative.”
Variety, August 4, 2021
Amanda Knox on why she went after Stillwater
“I’m not arguing legal arguments. I’m arguing human arguments,” says Knox, who feels “Stillwater” refuels conspiratorial suspicions about her that were finally rejected by an Italian court.
Amanda Knox on why she went after Stillwater
“I’m not arguing legal arguments. I’m arguing human arguments,” says Knox, who feels “Stillwater” refuels conspiratorial suspicions about her that were finally rejected by an Italian court.
The Seattle Times, July 23, 2021
Miscarriage is common, yet shrouded in stigma
"One in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, according to the World Health Organization. But while there are cultural scripts for responding to pregnancy and birth, there isn’t one for miscarriage. Instead, families facing pregnancy loss often experience shame, stigma and isolation. Amanda Knox wants to change that."
Miscarriage is common, yet shrouded in stigma
"One in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, according to the World Health Organization. But while there are cultural scripts for responding to pregnancy and birth, there isn’t one for miscarriage. Instead, families facing pregnancy loss often experience shame, stigma and isolation. Amanda Knox wants to change that."
Inside Edition, July 12, 2021
Amanda Knox Opens Up About Miscarriage in Podcast Interview
“Amanda Knox has revealed she suffered a miscarriage, opening up about the painful ordeal with her husband, Christopher Robinson.”
Amanda Knox Opens Up About Miscarriage in Podcast Interview
“Amanda Knox has revealed she suffered a miscarriage, opening up about the painful ordeal with her husband, Christopher Robinson.”
The Times UK, January 24, 2021
Amanda Knox: ‘I exist only through the lens of Meredith’s murder. People forget I am a human being’
“Acquitted of killing Meredith Kercher, Knox is now presenting a true crime podcast and campaigning against wrongful convictions. She speaks to Rosie Kinchen.”
Amanda Knox: ‘I exist only through the lens of Meredith’s murder. People forget I am a human being’
“Acquitted of killing Meredith Kercher, Knox is now presenting a true crime podcast and campaigning against wrongful convictions. She speaks to Rosie Kinchen.”
Vulture, March 20, 2019
Amanda Knox Just Wants to Make Hats
"Since then, Knox has been busy. She’s spent her time trying to help others wrongfully accused, giving voice to survivors of true crime and media sensationalization through her podcast, The Truth About True Crime, currently in its second season, which covers the case of the cultish Alamo Christian Foundation. (Season one centered on the Jonestown massacre.) She also has a regular web series, and she’ll be speaking this week at the Death Becomes Us festival. We sat down to talk with Knox about the podcast, the case that made her famous, and her dream of leaving everything behind to make hats."
Amanda Knox Just Wants to Make Hats
"Since then, Knox has been busy. She’s spent her time trying to help others wrongfully accused, giving voice to survivors of true crime and media sensationalization through her podcast, The Truth About True Crime, currently in its second season, which covers the case of the cultish Alamo Christian Foundation. (Season one centered on the Jonestown massacre.) She also has a regular web series, and she’ll be speaking this week at the Death Becomes Us festival. We sat down to talk with Knox about the podcast, the case that made her famous, and her dream of leaving everything behind to make hats."
Quillette, Nov 29, 2018
'Luciferina': An Interview with Amanda Knox
“Though the Republic of Italy has been secular since 1985, on the wall above the judge in the Perugia courtroom hung a giant black crucifix. The main prosecutor, Giuliano Mignini, thundered at the then 22-year-old American defendant, Amanda Knox, on trial in 2009 for the murder, two years earlier, of her British roommate in Perugia, Meredith Kercher, calling her, Knox remembers, a slut and an adulteress.”
'Luciferina': An Interview with Amanda Knox
“Though the Republic of Italy has been secular since 1985, on the wall above the judge in the Perugia courtroom hung a giant black crucifix. The main prosecutor, Giuliano Mignini, thundered at the then 22-year-old American defendant, Amanda Knox, on trial in 2009 for the murder, two years earlier, of her British roommate in Perugia, Meredith Kercher, calling her, Knox remembers, a slut and an adulteress.”
The Irish Independent, May 12, 2018
There's a special kind of monster that's a woman - Amanda Knox
"If you go looking for her book on Amazon you come across many titles. Amanda Knox, Innocent or Guilty?, Angel Face, The Fatal Gift of Beauty and The Manipulative Memoir of Amanda Knox: A Critical Analysis, which is not very critical.
Has she read any of the books? 'There are so many books I want to read in my life that I’m not going to waste my time on a lot of them,' she says, but goes on to say she did read two books pertaining to her trials, Sollecito’s Honour Bound and Meredith by Meredith’s father, John Kercher. 'That was incredibly excruciating to read. It was moving because he had these beautiful memories of Meredith and he was writing with the deep anguish of a father who had lost his daughter. There was also this anger directed at me, and it was so clear that he hated me. He felt that his family was very unseen and unheard, and I empathised with that because I also felt very unseen and unheard by him.'"
There's a special kind of monster that's a woman - Amanda Knox
"If you go looking for her book on Amazon you come across many titles. Amanda Knox, Innocent or Guilty?, Angel Face, The Fatal Gift of Beauty and The Manipulative Memoir of Amanda Knox: A Critical Analysis, which is not very critical.
Has she read any of the books? 'There are so many books I want to read in my life that I’m not going to waste my time on a lot of them,' she says, but goes on to say she did read two books pertaining to her trials, Sollecito’s Honour Bound and Meredith by Meredith’s father, John Kercher. 'That was incredibly excruciating to read. It was moving because he had these beautiful memories of Meredith and he was writing with the deep anguish of a father who had lost his daughter. There was also this anger directed at me, and it was so clear that he hated me. He felt that his family was very unseen and unheard, and I empathised with that because I also felt very unseen and unheard by him.'"
Time Magazine, May 02, 2018
Amanda Knox on Her New Show, #MeToo and Life After Prison
“When we label human beings and flatten them to just a splashy headline, we lose decency and the truth. Our long history of exploiting women’s bodies and suppressing their voices had a direct impact on my case and other women’s lives. This doesn’t just affect famous people — the way we engage with women in the public eye is reflected in the way we treat people in our broader society. The 'slut' is given the same treatment on the school ground as the “ho” in the tabloid. We can’t just pretend that this is a thing that affects some people and not other people — that some people matter and others don’t. Everyone deserves context and compassion.”
Amanda Knox on Her New Show, #MeToo and Life After Prison
“When we label human beings and flatten them to just a splashy headline, we lose decency and the truth. Our long history of exploiting women’s bodies and suppressing their voices had a direct impact on my case and other women’s lives. This doesn’t just affect famous people — the way we engage with women in the public eye is reflected in the way we treat people in our broader society. The 'slut' is given the same treatment on the school ground as the “ho” in the tabloid. We can’t just pretend that this is a thing that affects some people and not other people — that some people matter and others don’t. Everyone deserves context and compassion.”
People Magazine, May 02, 2018
Years After Murder Exoneration, Amanda Knox Hosts TV Show About Women Who've Been Publicly Shamed
"'It’s humbling to be here in the position I’m in now, where I can help other women reclaim their narrative,' she says, 'when at a certain point in my life I thought I was going to live the better part of my life in prison labeled something I was not — with no chance at ever reclaiming my life.'
Years After Murder Exoneration, Amanda Knox Hosts TV Show About Women Who've Been Publicly Shamed
"'It’s humbling to be here in the position I’m in now, where I can help other women reclaim their narrative,' she says, 'when at a certain point in my life I thought I was going to live the better part of my life in prison labeled something I was not — with no chance at ever reclaiming my life.'
Playboy with Isabelle Kohn, August 17, 2017
How Did Being ‘Foxy’ Hurt Amanda Knox?
"Perhaps this century’s most shining example of how 'deviant' female sexuality is associated with criminality and the ruinous fallout of that perception, Knox has had the laser-beam of of gender stereotypes and misunderstood ideas of female sexuality focused on her at point-blank. That weight could have broken anyone. This conference room in West Hollywood, with its neon tributes to Clear Channel’s Top 40 and vases of glass baubles with unknowable purposes, might have looked trite to someone arriving there to bare their soul. Not her. Amanda Knox has gone through hell to stand on a conference room stage in West Hollywood, and she’ll be damned if what happened to her ends in anything other than resilience."
How Did Being ‘Foxy’ Hurt Amanda Knox?
"Perhaps this century’s most shining example of how 'deviant' female sexuality is associated with criminality and the ruinous fallout of that perception, Knox has had the laser-beam of of gender stereotypes and misunderstood ideas of female sexuality focused on her at point-blank. That weight could have broken anyone. This conference room in West Hollywood, with its neon tributes to Clear Channel’s Top 40 and vases of glass baubles with unknowable purposes, might have looked trite to someone arriving there to bare their soul. Not her. Amanda Knox has gone through hell to stand on a conference room stage in West Hollywood, and she’ll be damned if what happened to her ends in anything other than resilience."
People Magazine with Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, August 16, 2017
Amanda Knox Is in Love and Rebuilding Her Life 6 Years After Being Released from Italian Prison
Amanda Knox's $3.8M from Her Book Deal Went to Pay Off Loans and Legal Fees from Her Italy Ordeal
Amanda Knox on Falling in Love and Wanting Kids — and What She Will Tell Them About Her Prison Ordeal
"These days she shares a small, rented Seattle house with her 35-year-old boyfriend, Christopher Robinson. She is writing and devoting herself to a new mission as an activist working to prevent wrongful convictions from happening to someone else. The nightmares that she would be sent back to prison are gone."
Amanda Knox Is in Love and Rebuilding Her Life 6 Years After Being Released from Italian Prison
Amanda Knox's $3.8M from Her Book Deal Went to Pay Off Loans and Legal Fees from Her Italy Ordeal
Amanda Knox on Falling in Love and Wanting Kids — and What She Will Tell Them About Her Prison Ordeal
"These days she shares a small, rented Seattle house with her 35-year-old boyfriend, Christopher Robinson. She is writing and devoting herself to a new mission as an activist working to prevent wrongful convictions from happening to someone else. The nightmares that she would be sent back to prison are gone."
Rolling Stone with Danielle Bacher, August 10, 2017
Amanda Knox on Life After Wrongful Conviction
"I feel like my job is to live my life and to heal from what happened to me. I don’t owe an explanation to people who still think I am guilty. It was crazy enough that I had to prove my innocence in the first place."
Amanda Knox on Life After Wrongful Conviction
"I feel like my job is to live my life and to heal from what happened to me. I don’t owe an explanation to people who still think I am guilty. It was crazy enough that I had to prove my innocence in the first place."
The Seattle Times, October 13, 2016
Amanda Knox’s strength to deal with social-media specters
"In her new role as champion for exonerees, Knox has an antidote for false confessions: Videotape all interrogations. 'Instead of calling it a false confession, they should be called a false admission,' said Knox. 'It’s all authored by them (police).'"
Amanda Knox’s strength to deal with social-media specters
"In her new role as champion for exonerees, Knox has an antidote for false confessions: Videotape all interrogations. 'Instead of calling it a false confession, they should be called a false admission,' said Knox. 'It’s all authored by them (police).'"
The Daily Beast, August 2, 2015
Two Novelists Double Down on Iraq War
"In an email exchange, Robinson and Kovite discussed how their collaborative process evolved over time and through multiple drafts, and they talked about the importance of utilizing both imagination and research when crafting textured fiction, and about the twisted relationship between young Americans and the now-14-year-old Global War on Terror."
Two Novelists Double Down on Iraq War
"In an email exchange, Robinson and Kovite discussed how their collaborative process evolved over time and through multiple drafts, and they talked about the importance of utilizing both imagination and research when crafting textured fiction, and about the twisted relationship between young Americans and the now-14-year-old Global War on Terror."
Huffpost, July 14, 2015
The Words After War Interview With Sara Nović
"Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite are the authors of War of the Encyclopaedists, which Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times calls 'a captivating coming of age novel that is by turns, funny and sad and elegiac.' In the words of Phil Klay, this 'bizarre, hilarious, and devastating' novel is both 'a war story and a story of the disaffected millennial generation for whom the war hardly happened at all.' Set in 2004, the novel moves from Seattle to Baghdad to Boston, following four twenty-somethings as they navigate war, love, and grad school. As part of Words After War's June book club selection, Christopher and Gavin answer a few questions from Sara Nović, author of Girl at War."
The Words After War Interview With Sara Nović
"Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite are the authors of War of the Encyclopaedists, which Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times calls 'a captivating coming of age novel that is by turns, funny and sad and elegiac.' In the words of Phil Klay, this 'bizarre, hilarious, and devastating' novel is both 'a war story and a story of the disaffected millennial generation for whom the war hardly happened at all.' Set in 2004, the novel moves from Seattle to Baghdad to Boston, following four twenty-somethings as they navigate war, love, and grad school. As part of Words After War's June book club selection, Christopher and Gavin answer a few questions from Sara Nović, author of Girl at War."
New Orleans Review, September 29, 2015
What Isn’t Absurd
"War of the Encyclopaedists, the first novel from writing duo Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite, is a coming-of-age roller coaster, an Iraq War novel, a millennial romance, and a buddy flick set to print. Robinson and Kovite toy with form, dance between perspectives, snark with the hipsters, and swap sex stories in the bunker. This is a book that, like some mixed up Congressional hearing, manages to go behind the scenes at both Planned Parenthood and Walter Reed. If that sounds like a lot, well, it’s because it is--Michiko Kakutani, writing in the New York Times, called the novel 'telling portraits of a couple of millennials trying to grope their way toward adulthood'—but Robinson and Kovite, along with their literary alter egos, Halifax Corderoy and Mickey Montauk, keep the story moving."
What Isn’t Absurd
"War of the Encyclopaedists, the first novel from writing duo Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite, is a coming-of-age roller coaster, an Iraq War novel, a millennial romance, and a buddy flick set to print. Robinson and Kovite toy with form, dance between perspectives, snark with the hipsters, and swap sex stories in the bunker. This is a book that, like some mixed up Congressional hearing, manages to go behind the scenes at both Planned Parenthood and Walter Reed. If that sounds like a lot, well, it’s because it is--Michiko Kakutani, writing in the New York Times, called the novel 'telling portraits of a couple of millennials trying to grope their way toward adulthood'—but Robinson and Kovite, along with their literary alter egos, Halifax Corderoy and Mickey Montauk, keep the story moving."
The Amazon Book Review, May 19, 2015
Guest Interview – Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite in conversation with Phil Klay
Guest Interview – Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite in conversation with Phil Klay
UW Daily, February 23, 2014
A student through it all: Amanda Knox returns to UW to finish her final degree requirements
Amanda Knox Full Interview Pt. 1
Part 2
Part 3
"More than six years ago, UW student Amanda Knox departed for a study abroad program that turned into a four-year emotional roller coaster behind Italian bars. Now, nine years after starting her college education, Knox is working on her final degree requirements to graduate in spring quarter 2014."
A student through it all: Amanda Knox returns to UW to finish her final degree requirements
Amanda Knox Full Interview Pt. 1
Part 2
Part 3
"More than six years ago, UW student Amanda Knox departed for a study abroad program that turned into a four-year emotional roller coaster behind Italian bars. Now, nine years after starting her college education, Knox is working on her final degree requirements to graduate in spring quarter 2014."
The Guardian, February 7, 2014
Amanda Knox: I feel stranded and trapped since new guilty verdict
Who is Amanda Knox?
Amanda Knox: 'They'll have to pull me back kicking and screaming to prison'
"She cups a latte and talks about university, living with her boyfriend James, making new friends. So you’re just a regular student, I say. She gulps. 'To have a Hunger Games moment with you, at a certain point the main character is talking about how he doesn’t want the games to change him. He’s a pawn, and he’s just in it, and it’s overwhelming his life, but he doesn’t want it to define who he is. And I felt like that. I don’t want this to be my life.' But the reality, she admits, is somewhat different."
Amanda Knox: I feel stranded and trapped since new guilty verdict
Who is Amanda Knox?
Amanda Knox: 'They'll have to pull me back kicking and screaming to prison'
"She cups a latte and talks about university, living with her boyfriend James, making new friends. So you’re just a regular student, I say. She gulps. 'To have a Hunger Games moment with you, at a certain point the main character is talking about how he doesn’t want the games to change him. He’s a pawn, and he’s just in it, and it’s overwhelming his life, but he doesn’t want it to define who he is. And I felt like that. I don’t want this to be my life.' But the reality, she admits, is somewhat different."
The New York Times, January 29, 2014
Ruling Looms in Italy for Amanda Knox in ’07 Killing
“'People who accuse me argue that justice cannot be done for Meredith unless I am convicted,' Ms. Knox said. 'It’s a mind-set where there are criminals and there are victims, and if you’re accused of being a criminal, there’s no way you can be a victim.'"
Ruling Looms in Italy for Amanda Knox in ’07 Killing
“'People who accuse me argue that justice cannot be done for Meredith unless I am convicted,' Ms. Knox said. 'It’s a mind-set where there are criminals and there are victims, and if you’re accused of being a criminal, there’s no way you can be a victim.'"
La Repubblica with Meo Ponte, January 9, 2014
L'ultima battaglia di Amanda Knox: "Stavolta sarò assolta, poi incontrerò i genitori di Meredith"
“Starò davvero bene soltanto quando la mia estraneità alla morte di Meredith sarà riconosciuta ufficialmente.”
L'ultima battaglia di Amanda Knox: "Stavolta sarò assolta, poi incontrerò i genitori di Meredith"
“Starò davvero bene soltanto quando la mia estraneità alla morte di Meredith sarà riconosciuta ufficialmente.”
New York Post, September 15, 2013
Amanda Knox: Trial hell left me broke and broken
“If someone can hate me, they should hate me for the right reasons. It just really digs at me that people hate me for things that have got nothing to do with me. They project their own ideas about what’s evil or inhuman onto me.”
Amanda Knox: Trial hell left me broke and broken
“If someone can hate me, they should hate me for the right reasons. It just really digs at me that people hate me for things that have got nothing to do with me. They project their own ideas about what’s evil or inhuman onto me.”
People Magazine, May 6, 2013
Amanda Knox: My True Story
“'In the courtroom I was called a liar and a murderer and a demon; in the media I was called a weird, jealous whore,' she says. 'Suddenly I wasn’t me.' It’s in part to address those doubts that she has written a new memoir, Waiting to Be Heard, a raw and dramatic account of her lost years—and it is why she agreed to speak exclusively to PEOPLE, followed by a Diane Sawyer Primetime special on April 30. 'I’m tired of speculation,' she says. 'I wanted to lay myself out in a completely honest way. It was, ‘You can judge me, but this is what you have to judge me on.'"
Amanda Knox: My True Story
“'In the courtroom I was called a liar and a murderer and a demon; in the media I was called a weird, jealous whore,' she says. 'Suddenly I wasn’t me.' It’s in part to address those doubts that she has written a new memoir, Waiting to Be Heard, a raw and dramatic account of her lost years—and it is why she agreed to speak exclusively to PEOPLE, followed by a Diane Sawyer Primetime special on April 30. 'I’m tired of speculation,' she says. 'I wanted to lay myself out in a completely honest way. It was, ‘You can judge me, but this is what you have to judge me on.'"
USA Today, April 25, 2013
Amanda Knox: On the record
“I really, really want this to not be just about what happened to me, but about what one can do in a bad place. And I’d love for it to open a discussion about some of the problems that surrounded my case — for instance, the idea of a public identity. The idea of trying to find the familiar in the completely unfamiliar. This existential crisis of things happening to you that you don’t understand.”
Amanda Knox: On the record
“I really, really want this to not be just about what happened to me, but about what one can do in a bad place. And I’d love for it to open a discussion about some of the problems that surrounded my case — for instance, the idea of a public identity. The idea of trying to find the familiar in the completely unfamiliar. This existential crisis of things happening to you that you don’t understand.”