Monthly Archives: July 2015
Hands Off the Safety Bar
Less than three weeks before my book is released to the world, and things are about to get REAL. Lots of news, including book tour dates, the audio book, and a VIRTUAL BOOK SIGNING! Read on!
Augusten Burroughs
STILL LIFE LAS VEGAS is one of the most startlingly assured debut novels I’ve ever read. James Sie’s writing is gorgeous and the story is heartbreaking, a masterful journey through memory and into unseen Las Vegas. Sie goes behind the swarms of tourists and kitsch and gets under the skins of the electric desert city’s […]
Booklist
The stories are haunting, a quality that is beautifully captured by artist Choi’s interpolated graphic novel chapters that expand and complement the text. Sie’s first novel is richly imagined and beautifully written with a well-realized setting and memorable characters. Together they make for an altogether auspicious debut.
Publishers Weekly
Sie’s debut novel is an often mesmerizing look at grief and coming of age…Engrossing.
The Venetian— so romantic, so manufactured, and so magical.
The Venetian— so romantic, so manufactured, and so magical.
This is the kind of photo I imagine young Emily found in that box of Vees…
This is the kind of photo I imagine young Emily found in that box of Vees…
