Greenwich Resident Pens Primer for College Students

TouchPoint Press has released a must-read for college students, parents, professors that’s described as “Funny, sincere, thought provoking, and honest.”

Lifelong Greenwich resident Ian Thomas Malone is among the younger generation of authors published under the TouchPoint Press list.

Malone’s pitch intrigued the publisher so much that she immediately sent the project to senior editor, Tamara Trudeau, TouchPoint’s go-to editor for all things philosophical and wise.

Released Aug. 25, readers are finding Five College Dialogues is much more than expected as well as entertaining and engaging. Malone has successfully revamped the premise of the Five Dialogues, a commonly required book for philosophy core classes, and turned the idea into to something witty and believable.

“There are hundreds of books out there advertising so called ‘advice’ for college students. Problem is that many of these books are flat out unreadable. That wasn’t the case with Five College Dialogues at all,” said one Amazon reader. “The characters are witty and the writing is believable, blending Socratic dialogue with more contemporary banter. The book will encourage you to excel without burdening you down with a load of nonsense. Few books could pull off turning a Socrates style character into a wise cracking graduate student, but Malone pulled it off.”

TouchPoint Press publisher, Sheri Williams describes Five College Dialogues as having a “smooth and humorous style that makes readers actually want to continue past the first few pages—a definite plus among college readers.”

“If you have a kid in college, one who’s about to, or if you just want to relive your college years, I highly recommend picking up this book. It offers genuine advice in a fashion that will actually get you to read it.”—Sebastian Moran, Amazon reader review.

Malone, the son of Barbara and Thomas Malone, is an author and certified yogi in Greenwich. He is a 2013 graduate of Boston College, where he founded The Rock at Boston College. Five College Dialogues is his first published work. In his spare time, Malone enjoys swimming and over-analyzing popular culture, particularly Star Wars and A Song of Ice and Fire.