Brin-Jonathan Butler


Brin-Jonathan Butler 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 be published in 2015.
Butler has a forthcoming documentary film, Split-Decision, examining Cuban-American relations.
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.

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

Kindle Singles

Errol Morris: The Kindle Singles Interview, 2015
Mike Tyson: The Kindle Singles Interview, 2014

Articles

  • 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
Aljazeera
  • Hurricane Carter's Obituary