Acclaimed director and screenwriter (Holes, The Fugitive, and the Santa Barbara–set Steal Big Steal Little, among others) and Santa Barbara resident Andy Davis has teamed up with American Book Award–winning author Jeff Biggers to write a new novel, Disturbing the Bones, in which they imagine what happens in the final days of a clashing presidential election, when a nuclear weapons incident throws the world into chaos.
Davis and Biggers will launch the novel at two Santa Barbara events on Wednesday, October 16. First, they will be at UCSB’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at 4 p.m. (click here for info), and that evening they will be signing books at the Community Environmental Council’s Environmental Hub (1219 State St.) at 7 p.m.
David Starkey spoke to Davis about his new novel. This interview has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity.