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2 months ago | 
washingtonspectator.org | Jeff Biggers
“Every night Walter Cronkite would give the body count. We would see these horrific stories of children running from their burning huts, and the world looked like it was on fire. The soldiers in their body bags, and they would give this body count, and it’s just horrible. I just felt awful.”—Mary Beth TinkerTen years before the end of the war, the kids in Iowa took the lead in the calls for peace.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
world-today-news.com | Andrew Davis |Jeff Biggers
From Silver Screen to Page: Andrew Davis Embraces the Written WordRenowned filmmaker Andrew Davis, known for captivating audiences with his thrilling cinematic vision, has expanded his creative horizons, venturing into the world of written storytelling. His latest project, a gripping thriller, emerged not from a dusty tome but from the spark of a film idea, a testament to the fluidity of artistic inspiration.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
wyso.org | Andrew Davis |Jeff Biggers |Vick Mickunas
We often see films that were inspired by books. Now and then we'll see the opposite of that, a book that is an offshoot of a movie. Andrew Davis has been making movies for many years. Listen in to our conversation to discover how this new thriller was the outgrowth of a film idea. Davis and his co-author Jeff Biggers imagined a world on thebrink of nuclear war. This story feels like it could have been ripped right out of the headlines.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
world-today-news.com | Jeff Biggers |Andrew Davis
College Basketball: Early Season Shocks and DisappointmentsThe season is young, but the vibrations felt from a month of college basketball are already impossible to ignore. Some surprises (the good kind) and (the painful kind) dealt with a new. Let’s dive into who’s exceeded expectations and who hasn’t quite hit the mark. The Unexpected Winners:MarquetteNobody expected Marquette, missing two of their star players, to waltz into the Top 20.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
msn.com | Jeff Biggers
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
salon.com | Jeff Biggers
GAVOI, SARDINIA — On the staircase to the mayor’s office of Gavoi, a screen projects the daily count of energy production and carbon emissions reduction from the solar panels that adorn the municipal buildings in this charming mountain town, as if suggesting that the direction of the energy policy for the second largest island in the Mediterranean is on target.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
scheerpost.com | Andrew Davis |Jeff Biggers
By Andrew Davis and Jeff Biggers / Common DreamsIn the final days of clashing election campaigns, a U.S. senator rides a groundswell of support as the world falters during a global nuclear crisis. In our novel, first drafted years ago, the character is Senator Elaine Adams, an African American woman from Chicago’s south side, the leading Democrat in a presidential campaign against a swaggering autocratic Republican who revels in name-calling and vulgar nicknames—“Insane Elaine” in our story.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Jeff Biggers
DISTURBING THE BONES is a propulsive debut political thriller set in the aftermath of a nuclear weapons crisis. A plot to disrupt a global peace summit in Chicago collides with a civil rights case breakthrough at a mysterious archaeological site. Learn more about the book and how it was written in this interview that Michael Barson, Senior Publicity Executive at Melville House, conducted with the authors: acclaimed filmmaker Andrew Davis and award-winning journalist Jeff Biggers.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Jeff Biggers
To make his point, Biggers, who grew up in Illinois and has spent a lot of time in Italy, moved his family to the Sardinian port city of Alghero, which he describes as “the most beautiful coastal town on the Mediterranean,” and used it as the starting point for extensive explorations of the island. During covid shutdowns, he digested vast amounts of the region’s history and literature. The result is In Sardinia.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
cochise.edu | Ted Forte |Jeff Biggers |Doug Hocking
August 28, 2023
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