Brin-Jonathan Butler

Brin-Jonathan Butler
Brin-Jonathan Butler (left) with Cuban boxer Guillermo Rigondeaux
Born1979 (age 46–47)
OccupationJournalist

Brin-Jonathan Butler (born 1979) is a freelance journalist, Amazon interviewer, filmmaker and host of the podcast Tourist Information. His work has been published in The Classical, The Rumpus, Harper's, The Daily Beast, Vice, ESPN The Magazine, The Paris Review, The Huffington Post and Salon.com. 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.

Butler has a forthcoming documentary film, Split Decision, examining Cuban–American relations.

Publications

Books

A Cuban Boxer's Journey: Guillermo Rigondeaux, from Castro's Traitor to American Champion, 2014, Picador: 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: 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 and was shortlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing in 2016.

The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again, 2018, Simon & Schuster. Longlisted for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize.

Kindle Singles

Errol Morris: The Kindle Singles Interview, 2015

Mike Tyson: The Kindle Singles Interview, 2014

Articles

ESPN

Salon

SBNation

Vice

Aljazeera

References

  1. ↑ "Tourist Information podcast: Mike Sager". The Ring. 2020-05-22. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  2. ↑ "The Happiest Man in the World". theclassical.org.
  3. ↑ "Tourist Information". The Rumpus.net.
  4. ↑ "Brin-Jonathan Butler's Sportswriter Profile". Bleacher Report. Archived from the original on 2012-08-09. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
  5. ↑ "/R E P E A T -- RBC Taylor Prize 2020 Longlist Revealed/". Benzinga. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
  6. ↑ S. L. Price
  7. ↑ Amazon.com: A Cuban Boxer's Journey: Guillermo Rigondeaux, from Castro's Traitor to American Champion (Kindle Single) eBook: Brin-Jonathan Butler: Kindle Store. 3 June 2014.
  8. ↑ Butler, Brin-Jonathan (9 June 2015). Amazon.com: The Domino Diaries: My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in the Last Days of Castro's Cuba (9781250043702): Brin-Jonathan Butler: Books. ISBN 978-1250043702.
  9. ↑ "The best books of 2015 - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  10. ↑ "2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing | PEN American Center". www.pen.org. 5 November 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  11. ↑ "/R E P E A T -- RBC Taylor Prize 2020 Longlist Revealed/". Benzinga. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
  12. ↑ Amazon.com: The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again: Brin-Jonathan Butler: Books. 13 November 2018.
  13. ↑ Amazon.com: Errol Morris: The Kindle Singles Interview : Brin-Jonathan Butler: Books.
  14. ↑ Amazon.com: Mike Tyson: The Kindle Singles Interview: Brin-Jonathan Butler: Books.
  15. ↑ "What more could Angulo have given us?". ESPN.com. 9 June 2013.
  16. 1 2 "Nonito Donaire-Guillermo Rigondeaux promises all fans want in a fight". ESPN.com. 3 April 2013.
  17. ↑ "The high-priced underground economy of smuggling champion Cuban boxers - ESPN The Magazine". ESPN.com. 7 February 2014.
  18. ↑ Brin-Jonathan Butler (9 August 2012). "Sparring with Mike Tyson". salon.com.
  19. ↑ Brin-Jonathan Butler (31 December 2012). "The way we left Cuba". salon.com.
  20. ↑ Brin-Jonathan Butler (8 September 2012). "Cuba's forgotten champ". salon.com.
  21. ↑ Brin-Jonathan Butler (20 November 2013). "Requiem for a welterweight". SBNation.com. Vox Media.
  22. ↑ Brin-Jonathan Butler (15 January 2013). "Training pampered motherf---ers". SBNation.com. Vox Media.
  23. ↑ Brin-Jonathan Butler and Kurt Emhoff (12 March 2014). "Gold In the Mud". SBNation.com. Vox Media.
  24. ↑ Brin-Jonathan Butler (10 June 2014). "Héroes for Sale". SBNation.com. Vox Media.
  25. ↑ Brin-Jonathan Butler (11 February 2015). "After the Fall". SBNation.com. Vox Media.
  26. ↑ sbnation. com/a/pacquiao-mayweather-fight Archived October 20, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  27. ↑ "The Horrors of Staying in Touch on Facebook". VICE. 18 September 2012.