South on Highland by Liana Maeby
Leila Massey, a young L.A. screenwriter, is on the verge of hitting it big when she falls into the grip of drug and alcohol addiction. Her descent into the narcotic underbelly of the city leads her to a commune in the desert, a filthy room at the Chateau Marmont, and, eventually, rehab. Will Leila continue down the dark path of addiction? Or will she make it as a successful writer? Based on the author’s own life, Liana Maeby’s brilliant debut novel is raw and haunting, and simultaneously incredibly astute and humorous. South on Highland explores true identity and questions our culture’s response to addiction and sensationalism.
“[A] darkly humorous, semi-autobiographical first novel about one girl’s journey through substance abuse and creative life in Hollywood..Maeby, a gifted young writer who adeptly eschews sentimentality, intersperses a fictional screenplay throughout the text and leaves the novel’s ending convincingly ambiguous.” —San Francisco Chronicle “South on Highland is [a] funny, critical twist on addiction.” —New York Daily News “I loved it. The book reminded me very much of one of the first books one of my mentors told me to read when I moved to Hollywood, Less Than Zero.” —Ryan Holiday, New York Observer “A very cool debut from a very cool writer. South on Highland belongs to a special literary tradition: the kind of book that kids will steal from each other.” —B.J. Novak, bestselling author of One More Thing and and Book with No Pictures “A humorous work of provocative nostalgia. Liana Maeby has written Less Than Zero for the emoji generation.” —Jason Reitman, director of Juno and Up in the Air “Liana Maeby has a serious way with words. South on Highland is a delightful, Adderall-fueled romp through Hollywood indulgence.” —Ariel Schrag, author of Adam “Hilarious and gut wrenching, both by turns and sometimes simultaneously. If this world is familiar to you, you’ll instantly fall into its authentic groove. If it’s foreign, you’ll find no tour guide more witty, more soulful, or more full of perception than the immensely talented Liana Maeby.” —Rian Johnson, writer and director of Brick and Looper “Liana Maeby has crafted a magic trick of a novel—profane and funny and devastating, and above all, fun as hell. As sexy and silly, dangerous and creepy as Jim Morrison’s leather pants, South on Highland does what the best drug novels do: make one both deeply aware of the insidious cost of drug addiction, and want to go get super wasted.” —Stephen Falk, creator of You’re the Worst on FX “Don’t say no to Maeby, say yes to South on Highland. If the madness and kaleidoscope values that make up life in LA could be captured in a book, it would have to be in the format hilariously realized in this incredible book. So funny because it’s so real, so real because it’s so horrifying, Liana Maeby has written the ultimate eulogy to American culture at its logical and geographic endpoint.” —Richard Rushfield, editor-in-chief of HitFix and author of Don’t Follow Me, I’m Lost “Liana Maeby makes possibly dying from a head wound on the floor of a millionaire’s bathroom funnier than it has any right to be. South on Highland is fast, thrilling, and incredibly clever.” —Kevin Seccia, author of Punching Tom “Liana Maeby’s accomplished debut novel, South On Highland, is a meditation on the addiction memoir...[an] exceedingly excellent work of fiction.” —SuicideGirls
Liana Maeby was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles, where she attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Interview Magazine and the Village Voice. She has been featured in Best of Twitter lists on sites like the Huffington Post, Splitsider, and Mandatory.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781477829882 |
| ISBN 10 | 1477829881 |
| Title | South on Highland |
| Author | Liana Maeby |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Amazon Publishing |
| Year published | 2015-07-14 |
| Number of pages | 244 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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