Brin-Jonathan Butler
American film director
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Brin-Jonathan Butler (born 1979) is a freelance journalist, Amazon interviewer, filmmaker and host of the podcast Tourist Information.[2] His work has been published in The Classical,[3] The Rumpus[4], Harper's, The Daily Beast, Vice, ESPN The Magazine, The Paris Review, The Huffington Post and Salon.com.[5] His book A Cuban Boxer's Journey was published 2014. The Domino Diaries was published in 2015. The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again was published in 2018 and longlisted for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize.[6]
Brin-Jonathan Butler | |
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Brin-Jonathan Butler (left) with Cuban boxer Guillermo Rigondeaux | |
| Born | 1979 (age 46–47) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | Canadian[1] |
Butler has a forthcoming documentary film, Split Decision, examining Cuban–American relations.[7]
Publications
Books
A Cuban Boxer's Journey: Guillermo Rigondeaux, from Castro's Traitor to American Champion, 2014, Picador:[8] a biography on Guillermo Rigondeaux
The Domino Diaries: My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in the Last Days of Castro's Cuba, 2015, Picador:[9] a memoir of time in Cuba living and training with Olympic boxing coaches. The Domino Diaries was on The Boston Globe's list of Best Books of 2015[10] and was shortlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing in 2016.[11]
The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again, 2018, Simon & Schuster. Longlisted for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize.[12][13]
Kindle Singles
Errol Morris: The Kindle Singles Interview, 2015 [14]
Mike Tyson: The Kindle Singles Interview, 2014 [15]
Articles
- What More Could Have Angulo Given Us? [16]
- Donaire-Rigondeaux Full of Promises [17]
- This Way Out: Inside the High Paced Underground Economy of Smuggling Champion Boxers [18]
- Donaire-Rigondeaux Full of Promise [17]
- Requiem for a Welterweight [22]
- Training Pampered Motherfuckers: Eric Kelly Schools the 1% [23]
- Gold in the Mud [24]
- Hero's for Sale: The Agony of the Cuban Athlete [25]
- After the Fall: 25 Years after Mike Tyson lost to Buster Douglas, why do we still have sympathy for the devil? [26]
- "Mayweather vs Pacquiao: The Poison Oasis" [27]
- The Horrors of Staying in Touch on Facebook [28]
- Hurricane Carter's Obituary
