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.
“[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
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