CKCU Literary News
Wednesday July 24th, 2024 with Hans G. Ruprecht
Award winning author ALEXANDER BOLDIZAR about his new novel THE MAN WHO SAW SECONDS (2024), "explores the nature of time, the brain as a prediction machine, and the tension between the individual and the systems we create." clashbooks.com

Alexander Boldizar was the first post-independence Slovak citizen to graduate with a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. Since then, he has been an art gallery director in Bali, an attorney in San Francisco and Prague, a pseudo-geisha in Japan, a hermit in Tennessee, a paleontologist in the Sahara, a porter in the High Arctic, a consultant on Wall Street, an art critic out of Jakarta and Singapore, and a police-abuse watchdog and Times Square billboard writer in New York City. He now lives in Vancouver, Canada. Boldizar’s writing has won the PEN/Nob Hill prize, a Somerset Award for literary fiction, and other awards, including a Best New American Voices nomination. His novel, The Ugly, was a best-seller among small presses in the United States with several “Best Book of 2016” awards and lists. He has a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, is a founding director of a charity that brings circus to youth in at-risk communities, and was once challenged to a leg-wrestling contest by the founder of The Onion. Source: https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/alexander-boldizar-the-man-who-saw-seconds-preorder