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2009-04-07T07:17:00.000-07:00

To Whom It May Concern:

Andrew Kiraly lives in fabulous Las Vegas, where he was born and raised. He is the author of the novel Crit, published by CityLife books. It's the story of notoriously acerbic L.A. rock critic Gabe Sack, whose final assignment takes him to Las Vegas. Gabe is supposed to pen a withering profile of an infamously bad lounge singer, and he plunges into a surreal underworld along the way.

Andrew is also the editor of Desert Companion, Southern Nevada's premier monthly city magazine. He pens wry commentary in his best eerily resonant public radio voice for Nevada Public Radio. If you're feeling kinda stalky and you Google around a little bit, you'll find he's done other stuff here and there as well.

He Twitters here, a place where his pathological need for the approval of strangers and your stunted attention span were simply meant to be together.

Thank you for your attention in this matter.

Sincerely,

Andrew Kiraly

2009-03-24T19:10:00.000-07:00

I really need to throw myself into something. Like Buddhism, or a swamp.

2009-03-24T19:02:00.000-07:00

I fooled her thus: "You do the details, I'll do the meaning."

2009-03-01T21:13:00.001-08:00

Then, too late, I discovered that abandoning the pretense starves the act.

2009-02-18T09:02:00.001-08:00

Now we're all famous all day long.

2009-02-18T09:01:00.000-08:00

There's arguably more in overhearing than listening.

2009-02-18T09:00:00.000-08:00

I always think it's the truth until I see the price tag dangling from it.

2009-02-11T18:11:00.000-08:00

The worst thing I ever said to anyone was, "I could do this all day."

2009-02-11T18:10:00.002-08:00

Marriage is an agreement to have told to you a series of uncomfortably true stories about yourself.

2009-02-11T18:10:00.001-08:00

I figure I can always coffee my way out of it.

2009-02-11T18:07:00.000-08:00

Invariably, the ideologue has the answer. Invariably, that answer is boring.

2009-02-11T18:06:00.002-08:00

Whatever you're parading, it's mostly parade.

2009-02-11T18:06:00.001-08:00

The best institutions are the ones you can feel disapprove of you.

2009-02-08T11:09:00.001-08:00

Some people are better understood as forms of weather.

2009-02-03T08:07:00.001-08:00

... and for a time, even convinced myself that stasis was a ripening.

2009-01-31T10:48:00.000-08:00

Love is happily dyslexic; on the other hand, I find myself disliking certain things about certain people in a certain order.

2009-01-30T10:49:00.000-08:00

"Children play in a world of dirt and germs," the commercial for bleach wipes said.

2009-01-27T19:01:00.000-08:00

His decisiveness is only undermined by turning it into a flourish.

2009-01-27T18:58:00.001-08:00

Your new band name: Tres Oui.

2009-01-27T18:56:00.001-08:00

Attrackt!

2009-01-27T17:53:00.001-08:00

Boring, yes, but on principle.

2009-01-27T17:37:00.000-08:00

I hate it when a writer stumbles and reminds me that novels are just elaborate instructions for the imagination.

2009-01-27T17:36:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the burden of having gotten the last word in.

2009-01-22T12:53:00.002-08:00

Cheap relief: Confess, confess the pleasures of conformity.

2009-01-22T12:53:00.001-08:00

The only way to express it is you remind me of someone I've yet to meet.