Brin-Jonathan Butler
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.
Brin-Jonathan Butler

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- Journalist Brin-Jonathan Butler (born 1979) is a freelance journalist, Amazon interviewer, filmmaker and host of the podcast Tourist Information.
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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.
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The Domino Diaries was published in 2015. 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.
• Name — Brin-Jonathan Butler • Born — 1979 • Occupation — Journalist 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.
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Errol Morris: The Kindle Singles Interview, 2015 Mike Tyson: The Kindle Singles Interview, 2014
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ESPN • What More Could Have Angulo Given Us? • Donaire-Rigondeaux Full of Promises • This Way Out: Inside the High Paced Underground Economy of Smuggling Champion Boxers • Donaire-Rigondeaux Full of Promise Salon • Sparring with Mike Tyson • The Way We Left Cuba • Cuba's Forgotten Champ SBNation • Requiem for a Welterweight • Training Pampered Motherfuckers: Eric Kelly Schools the 1% • Gold in the Mud • Hero's for Sale: The Agony of the Cuban Athlete • After the Fall: 25 Years after Mike Tyson lost to Buster Douglas, why do we still have sympathy for the devil? • "Mayweather vs Pacquiao: The Poison Oasis" Vice • The Horrors of Staying in Touch on Facebook Aljazeera • Hurricane Carter's Obituary

Canadian Journalist Brin-Jonathan Butler and Cuban Boxer Guillermo Rigondeaux
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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.
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- 1.Tourist Information podcast: Mike Sager. The Ring. 2020-05-22.
- 2.The Happiest Man in the World. theclassical.org.
- 3.Tourist Information. The Rumpus.net.
- 4.Bleacher Report. Brin-Jonathan Butler's Sportswriter Profile.
- 5./R E P E A T -- RBC Taylor Prize 2020 Longlist Revealed/. Benzinga.
- 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. 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. 9 June 2015. 978-1250043702.
- 9.The best books of 2015 - The Boston Globe. BostonGlobe.com.
- 10.2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing PEN American Center. www.pen.org. 5 November 2015.
- 11./R E P E A T -- RBC Taylor Prize 2020 Longlist Revealed/. Benzinga.
- 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.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. Sparring with Mike Tyson. salon.com. 9 August 2012.
- 19.Brin-Jonathan Butler. The way we left Cuba. salon.com. 31 December 2012.
- 20.Brin-Jonathan Butler. Cuba's forgotten champ. salon.com. 8 September 2012.
- 21.Brin-Jonathan Butler. Requiem for a welterweight. SBNation.com. Vox Media. 20 November 2013.
- 22.Brin-Jonathan Butler. Training pampered motherf---ers. SBNation.com. Vox Media. 15 January 2013.
- 23.Brin-Jonathan Butler and Kurt Emhoff. Gold In the Mud. SBNation.com. Vox Media. 12 March 2014.
- 24.Brin-Jonathan Butler. Héroes for Sale. SBNation.com. Vox Media. 10 June 2014.
- 25.Brin-Jonathan Butler. After the Fall. SBNation.com. Vox Media. 11 February 2015.
- 26.sbnation. com/a/pacquiao-mayweather-fight
- 27.The Horrors of Staying in Touch on Facebook. VICE. 18 September 2012.
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