Media

We used to watch Sky News in the cafes of Italy and the tabacs of France and they interviewed me recently about the Amanda Knox trial. Here's the link.

I did an interview with our local Callicoon newspaper some years back. The reporter, Jeanne Sager, now has her own blog called The Stir, on Cafe Mom, and she's generally cool and brilliant.  You can read her blog here.

And the interview, where we talked about Mary Pinchot Meyer, Ben Bradlee, CIA, James Smithson, living in Paris, writing, and researching like Nancy Drew -  and having our great little babies, is right here.

I talked to Leonard Lopate at WNYC  about how the West discovered Egypt. Listen here. 

I was truly honored to be invited to speak at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago on archaeological forgery, the James Ossuary case and the Syro-Palestinian-Judaica relic trade.
It was a thrill to be there. I wanted to be an archaeologist as a kid and I spent some childhood years playing in the backyard of the OI in Hyde Park.

Click here to watch the talk.

I talked with NY attorney Jim Zirin for half an hour about Italian justice and Amanda Knox. View it here.

I talked with John Hockenberry and co. on New York's NPR here.

I participated a little bit in this project, and you can watch the excellent CBS investigation here.

Big props to Susan Zirinsky and producers Doug Longhini and Sara Ely Hulse, and Peter Van Sant, for the work they did bringing to light the problems in the Amanda Knox case early on. More than anyone, these professionals laid the groundwork for really investigating the case.

Bravo to all.

Some of the lessons we can take away from the Amanda Knox story, in the San Francisco Chronicle.

An article on the media, in Time.

. An essay on the misogyny, in the LA Times.

The Post excerpted a piece of the book that explains the origins of the sex  game theory.

My friends out in San Francisco at Redroom.com published this Q and A on writing The Fatal Gift, in which I talked about Perugia, the press and corresponding with Amanda Knox.

Discussing the book on GMA.

Discussing the Amanda Knox case on Today.

My MSNBC interview on the Amanda Knox case.

An NPR foreign correspondent pal of mine used to have a list of seven ways for journalists to grow old gracefully. His premise, which is self-evident to anyone who's been a reporter, was that daily news was an undignified thing to be doing in your 40s. I can't remember the whole of the list. It included writing op-eds for your newspaper (which seemed more or less like retirement), teaching journalism at a university (also retirement, but somewhat scorned by other hacks), and maybe the seventh was dieing. Undoubtedly the most prestigious way to proceed, according to that list, was to write nonfiction books. Nina Burleigh has a most graceful career, indeed. Read more at The Man of Twists and Turns.

Kent Gustavson Ph.D. interviews Nina Burleigh about Unholy Business and other events and projects in the author's life.

Investigative reporter Nina Burleigh talked about the James Ossuary and other contentious archaeological 'finds' from the Holy Land. Many of the archaeological digs in Israel are being financed and carried out by Fundamentalist Christians, Burleigh said. The person who crafted the James Ossuary played into their desire to find ancient objects that could confirm the validity of Scripture, she noted.

Unholy Business discussed at The Toronoto Sun