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Author News & Interviews

Interview: Austin Duffy, author of Cross

Nov 25, 2024

Acclaimed Irish writer Austin Duffy makes his US debut with CROSS, a masterful tale of betrayal and violence in a tight-knit community in Northern Ireland during the last days of The Troubles. In this interview conducted by Michael Barson, Senior Publicity Executive at Melville House, Duffy talks about his inspiration for writing the book, why he thinks it could work as a film or television series, the two Irish authors whose novels he admires the most, and his upcoming projects.

Interview: Graham Brown, author of Clive Cussler Desolation Code: A Novel from the NUMA Files

Nov 14, 2024

Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew face swarms of deadly bio-hacked sea locusts, a runaway AI system and a sinister cult in the newly released CLIVE CUSSLER DESOLATION CODE. In this interview conducted by Michael Barson, Senior Publicity Executive at Melville House and Clive Cussler’s primary publicist at G.P. Putnam’s Sons from 1999 to 2015, Graham Brown talks about collaborating with Cussler on this series, the changes he has made to Kurt as a character, and the impact that technological innovations have on these books.

Interview: Andrew Davis, author of Disturbing the Bones

Oct 31, 2024

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.

Interview: Benjamin Barson, author of Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons

Oct 10, 2024

Benjamin Barson is a historian, a baritone saxophonist, a political activist and an assistant professor of music at Bucknell University. His newly released book, BRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY, recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed. In this interview conducted by Michael Barson, Senior Publicity Executive at Melville House (and Benjamin’s father), Benjamin talks about his inspiration for the book, a thrilling discovery he made while researching this fascinating subject, and his next project, which is somewhat of a sequel to BRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY.

Author Talk: Irene Daria, Ph.D., author of I Didn't Believe Him

Sep 19, 2024

Irene Daria is a cognitive developmental psychologist who specializes in teaching children how to read, including those of Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett, and Tom Brady and Bridget Moynahan. At the time of her memoir, I DIDN’T BELIEVE HIM, she was thrilled that her son had been accepted to one of the most esteemed public schools in Manhattan. Believing that he was on the path to a venerable education, she did not listen when her five-year-old told her that he --- like millions of other children --- was not being taught how to read in school. An entire, very painful school year passed before Eric got her to realize he was right. Follow along as Daria begins a perplexing but ultimately empowering journey to save his academic life, which she talks about in this insightful and eye-opening interview.