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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]

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Brin-Jonathan Butler
Brin-Jonathan Butler (left) with Cuban boxer Guillermo Rigondeaux
Born	1979
Occupation	Journalist
Nationality	Canadian[1]

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.^{[citation needed]}

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

• What More Could Have Angulo Given Us? [17]
• Donaire-Rigondeaux Full of Promises [18]
• This Way Out: Inside the High Paced Underground Economy of Smuggling Champion Boxers [19]
• Donaire-Rigondeaux Full of Promise [18]

Salon

• Sparring with Mike Tyson [20]
• The Way We Left Cuba [21]
• Cuba's Forgotten Champ [22]

SBNation

• Requiem for a Welterweight [23]
• Training Pampered Motherfuckers: Eric Kelly Schools the 1% [24]
• Gold in the Mud [25]
• Hero's for Sale: The Agony of the Cuban Athlete [26]
• After the Fall: 25 Years after Mike Tyson lost to Buster Douglas, why do we still have sympathy for the devil? [27]
• "Mayweather vs Pacquiao: The Poison Oasis" [28]

Vice

• The Horrors of Staying in Touch on Facebook [29]

Aljazeera

• Hurricane Carter's Obituary

References

External links

• Brin-Jonathan Butler at IMDb
• Split Decision: The Guillermo Rigondeaux Story
• On the Ropes: Freddie Roach
• Ali vs Stevenson: The Greatest Fight That Never Was

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