Brin-Jonathan Butler
| Brin-Jonathan Butler | |
|---|---|
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| Born | 1979 |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | American |
Brin-Jonathan Butler (born 1979) is a freelance journalist, Amazon interviewer, and award-winning documentary filmmaker. His work has been published in The Classical,[1] The Rumpus[2], Harper's, The Daily Beast, Vice, ESPN The Magazine, The Paris Review, The Huffington Post and Salon.com.[3] His book A Cuban Boxer's Journey was published 2014. The Domino Diaries was be published in 2015.
Butler has a forthcoming documentary film, Split-Decision, examining Cuban-American relations.[4]
Butler is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and PEN America.
Publications
Picador USA published two books by Butler in June 2014 and 2015: A Cuban Boxer's Journey,[5] a biography on Guillermo Rigondeaux, and The Domino Diaries,[6] 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[7] and has been nominated and longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing in 2016.[8] The winner will be announced on March 1, 2016.
- What More Could Have Angulo Given Us? [9]
- Donaire-Rigondeaux Full of Promises [10]
- This Way Out: Inside the High Paced Underground Economy of Smuggling Champion Boxers [11]
- Donaire-Rigondeaux Full of Promise [10]
- Requiem for a Welterweight [15]
- Training Pampered Motherfuckers: Eric Kelly Schools the 1% [16]
- Gold in the Mud [17]
- Hero's for Sale: The Agony of the Cuban Athlete [18]
- After the Fall: 25 Years after Mike Tyson lost to Buster Douglas, why do we still have sympathy for the devil? [19]
- "Mayweather vs Pacquiao: The Poison Oasis" [20]
- The Horrors of Staying in Touch on Facebook [21]
- Hurricane Carter's Obituary
References
- ↑ "The Happiest Man in the World". theclassical.org.
- ↑ "Tourist Information". The Rumpus.net.
- ↑ "Brin-Jonathan Butler's Sportswriter Profile". Bleacher Report. Archived from the original on 2012-08-09. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ↑ S.L. Price
- ↑ "Amazon.com: A Cuban Boxer's Journey: Guillermo Rigondeaux, from Castro's Traitor to American Champion (Kindle Single) eBook: Brin-Jonathan Butler: Kindle Store". amazon.com.
- ↑ "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". amazon.com.
- ↑ "The best books of 2015 - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
- ↑ "2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing | PEN American Center". www.pen.org. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
- ↑ "What more could Angulo have given us?". ESPN.com.
- 1 2 "Nonito Donaire-Guillermo Rigondeaux promises all fans want in a fight". ESPN.com.
- ↑ "The high-priced underground economy of smuggling champion Cuban boxers - ESPN The Magazine". ESPN.com.
- ↑ Brin-Jonathan Butler. "Sparring with Mike Tyson". salon.com.
- ↑ Brin-Jonathan Butler. "The way we left Cuba". salon.com.
- ↑ Brin-Jonathan Butler. "Cuba’s forgotten champ". salon.com.
- ↑ Brin-Jonathan Butler. "Requiem for a welterweight". SBNation.com. Vox Media.
- ↑ Brin-Jonathan Butler. "Training pampered motherf---ers". SBNation.com. Vox Media.
- ↑ Brin-Jonathan Butler and Kurt Emhoff. "Gold In the Mud". SBNation.com. Vox Media.
- ↑ Brin-Jonathan Butler. "Héroes for Sale". SBNation.com. Vox Media.
- ↑ Brin-Jonathan Butler. "After the Fall". SBNation.com. Vox Media.
- ↑ sbnation. com/a/pacquiao-mayweather-fight Archived October 20, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "The Horrors of Staying in Touch on Facebook". VICE.
External links
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