Brin-Jonathan Butler Explained

Brin-Jonathan Butler
Birth Date:1979
Occupation:Journalist
Nationality:Canadian[1]

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]

Butler has a forthcoming documentary film, Split-Decision, examining Cuban–American relations.[7]

Butler is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and PEN America.

Butler is also a member of Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, a respected international boxing rankings organization that was formed in 2012.[8]

Publications

Books

A Cuban Boxer's Journey: Guillermo Rigondeaux, from Castro's Traitor to American Champion, 2014, Picador:[9] 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:[10] 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[11] and was shortlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing in 2016.[12]

The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again, 2018, Simon & Schuster. Longlisted for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize.[13] [14]

Kindle Singles

Errol Morris: The Kindle Singles Interview, 2015 [15]

Mike Tyson: The Kindle Singles Interview, 2014 [16]

Articles

ESPN

Salon

SBNation

Vice

Aljazeera

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Butler . Brin-Jonathan . The Domino Diaries: My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in the Last Days of Castro's Cuba . 2015 . Macmillan . 9781250043702.
  2. Web site: 2020-05-22. Tourist Information podcast: Mike Sager. 2020-07-15. The Ring.
  3. Web site: The Happiest Man in the World. theclassical.org.
  4. Web site: Tourist Information. The Rumpus.net.
  5. Web site: Brin-Jonathan Butler's Sportswriter Profile . Bleacher Report . 2012-08-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120809040014/http://bleacherreport.com/users/625989-brin-jonathan-butler . 2012-08-09 .
  6. Web site: /R E P E A T -- RBC Taylor Prize 2020 Longlist Revealed/. 2020-09-22. Benzinga. English.
  7. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/writers/sl_price/archive/index.html S. L. Price
  8. Web site: MEMBERS Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. tbrb.org. 2014-01-25.
  9. Book: 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 .
  10. Book: 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. 978-1250043702 . Butler . Brin-Jonathan . 9 June 2015 .
  11. Web site: The best books of 2015 - The Boston Globe. BostonGlobe.com. 2016-01-20.
  12. Web site: 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing PEN American Center. www.pen.org. 5 November 2015 . 2016-01-20.
  13. Web site: /R E P E A T -- RBC Taylor Prize 2020 Longlist Revealed/. 2020-09-22. Benzinga. English.
  14. Book: Amazon.com: The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again: Brin-Jonathan Butler: Books. 13 November 2018 .
  15. Book: Amazon.com: Errol Morris: The Kindle Singles Interview : Brin-Jonathan Butler: Books.
  16. Book: Amazon.com: Mike Tyson: The Kindle Singles Interview: Brin-Jonathan Butler: Books.
  17. Web site: What more could Angulo have given us?. ESPN.com. 9 June 2013 .
  18. Web site: Nonito Donaire-Guillermo Rigondeaux promises all fans want in a fight. ESPN.com. 3 April 2013 .
  19. Web site: The high-priced underground economy of smuggling champion Cuban boxers - ESPN The Magazine. ESPN.com. 7 February 2014 .
  20. Web site: Sparring with Mike Tyson. Brin-Jonathan Butler. salon.com. 9 August 2012 .
  21. Web site: The way we left Cuba. Brin-Jonathan Butler. salon.com. 31 December 2012 .
  22. Web site: Cuba's forgotten champ. Brin-Jonathan Butler. salon.com. 8 September 2012 .
  23. Web site: Requiem for a welterweight. Brin-Jonathan Butler. Vox Media. SBNation.com. 20 November 2013 .
  24. Web site: Training pampered motherf---ers. Brin-Jonathan Butler. Vox Media. SBNation.com. 15 January 2013 .
  25. Web site: Gold In the Mud. Brin-Jonathan Butler and Kurt Emhoff. Vox Media. SBNation.com. 12 March 2014 .
  26. Web site: Héroes for Sale. Brin-Jonathan Butler. Vox Media. SBNation.com. 10 June 2014 .
  27. Web site: After the Fall. Brin-Jonathan Butler. Vox Media. SBNation.com. 11 February 2015 .
  28. http://www. sbnation. com/a/pacquiao-mayweather-fight
  29. Web site: The Horrors of Staying in Touch on Facebook. VICE. 18 September 2012 .

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