Tag: Alexander Boldizar

  • Fiction Review: Ray Barker Reads Alexander Boldizar’s The Ugly

    Fiction Review: Ray Barker Reads Alexander Boldizar’s The Ugly

    Even courageous readers have likely never encountered a character with the overwhelming physical mass and intellectual presence of (northern) Siberian oaf, and oversized tribal chief, Muzhduk Ugli the Fourth. Muzhduk is the three-hundred-pound blond-bearded protagonist that propels Alexander Boldizar’s oddly unforgettable debut novel, The Ugly, to its fairytale end. The novel ostensibly details the life…