But because that fish sometimes flops, if you’re here for the first time or just exploring, I recommend you click on the category “Boldizar’s favourites” and pick one [...]]]> http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2012/04/1798/feed/ 0 http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2012/03/harvard-law-record-profile/ http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2012/03/harvard-law-record-profile/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 03:59:06 +0000 Boldizar http://www.boldizar.com/blog/?p=1231

The Harvard Law Record recently did a profile piece on me, “From Law School to Novelist and Art Critic.”

Alexander Boldizar ’99 became recognized by Slovakia’s president as the “first Slovak citizen to graduate from Harvard Law School” when, as he puts it, “small country nepotism” got him back the citizenship he’d abandoned in [...]]]> http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2012/03/harvard-law-record-profile/feed/ 0 http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/07/ashley-bickertons-sad-anthropologists-2/ http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/07/ashley-bickertons-sad-anthropologists-2/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 05:40:04 +0000 Boldizar http://www.boldizar.com/blog/?page_id=1279 Reprinted from C-Arts Magazine, July 2010.

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person.” —Czeslaw Milosz

Ashley Bickerton’s paintings are a form of combat between attachment and its opposite, a fusion of subject matter with distance between the parts. His mastery of tone—tone as defined [...]]]> http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/07/ashley-bickertons-sad-anthropologists-2/feed/ 0 http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/04/brazilian-jiu-jitsu/ http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/04/brazilian-jiu-jitsu/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:14:11 +0000 Boldizar http://www.boldizar.com/blog/?p=1721 Since starting this blog, I’ve tried to keep it general interest, to bring in personal experience only insofar as I consider the subjective perspective more intellectually honest than any pretense of objectivity.  I’ve avoided posts that are journal-like, etc. This is a departure from that. It’s, first and foremost, for myself, a page where I [...]]]> http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/04/brazilian-jiu-jitsu/feed/ 0 http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/taylor-momsen%e2%80%99s-secret-sex-with-a-green-fat-toxic-cancer-tumor-or-was-that-lady-gaga/ http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/taylor-momsen%e2%80%99s-secret-sex-with-a-green-fat-toxic-cancer-tumor-or-was-that-lady-gaga/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:04:42 +0000 Boldizar http://www.boldizar.com/blog/?page_id=1300 Reprinted from C-Arts Magazine (September 2010).

I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives—the disastrous by-product of the scientific and technical mentality. Nostra culpa. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

— Albert Einstein

One of the things I [...]]]> http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/taylor-momsen%e2%80%99s-secret-sex-with-a-green-fat-toxic-cancer-tumor-or-was-that-lady-gaga/feed/ 5 http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/i%e2%80%99m-an-anarchist-and-it%e2%80%99s-ok/ http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/i%e2%80%99m-an-anarchist-and-it%e2%80%99s-ok/#comments Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:08:38 +0000 Boldizar http://www.boldizar.com/blog/?p=1053

Reprinted from Liberty Magazine (October 2009)

Over the years the people I’ve met who self-identify as “anarchists” tend to be among the dumbest and the smartest people I’ve had the pleasure or displeasure of knowing. Very few reasonable people attach that label to themselves. In an attempt to avoid being lumped with the dumbest, I [...]]]> http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/i%e2%80%99m-an-anarchist-and-it%e2%80%99s-ok/feed/ 2 http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/i-muzhduk-prologue-of-the-ugly/ http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/i-muzhduk-prologue-of-the-ugly/#comments Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:48:43 +0000 Boldizar http://www.boldizar.com/blog/?p=1406

The River Lena

Reprinted from Transition Magazine, issue #96, where it was published as The River Lena. Official representative of Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference to Best New American Voices Anthology.

Muzhduk stepped left to put himself in the path of the flying boulder. It was the size and shape of a [...]]]> http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/i-muzhduk-prologue-of-the-ugly/feed/ 2 http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/1434/ http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/1434/#comments Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:39:21 +0000 Boldizar http://www.boldizar.com/blog/?p=1434

Metropolitan Avenue

Reprinted from the Chicago Quarterly Review (summer 2008)

Do you know where we are?”

“Absolutely.”

“There are no lights.  I’ve never seen a city like this.”

“I know where we are.”

Eve pulled on her fingers, one by one, to crack them.  Frank drove and she watched the [...]]]> http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/1434/feed/ 0 http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/pulling-shadows/ http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/pulling-shadows/#comments Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:34:48 +0000 Boldizar http://www.boldizar.com/blog/?p=1429

Pulling Shadows

Reprinted from Fiction International, issue #38. Winner of PEN/Nob Hill prize for best novel excerpt.

“Keep your legs closed!” the midwife yelled at Ibu.  “Don’t you let that baby out!”

But Ibu couldn’t hear the midwife cursing her, threatening to keep the gate closed if Ibu didn’t listen.  She [...]]]> http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/pulling-shadows/feed/ 0 http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/before-the-law-a-rebuttal/ http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/before-the-law-a-rebuttal/#comments Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:25:57 +0000 Boldizar http://www.boldizar.com/blog/?p=1421

Before the Law: a Rebuttal

Reprinted from the Chicago Quarterly Review, winter 2007. It’s a modified excerpt from The Ugly.

Muzhduk walked to the centre of the Quad. Everything was stately, romanesque, the buildings buttressed, cloistered, but varied: three hundred years of red brick architecture around one long rectangle of green grass [...]]]> http://www.boldizar.com/blog/2011/03/before-the-law-a-rebuttal/feed/ 0