Brin-Jonathan Butler
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Brin-Jonathan Butler

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BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER has written for Esquire, Bloomberg, ESPN Magazine, Playboy, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Southwest: The Magazine, Al Jazeera, and Vice. His first book, The Domino Diaries, was shortlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for literary sports writing and a Boston Globe Best Book of 2015. The Grandmaster was published by Simon and Schuster in November of 2018 and was long-listed for the RBC Taylor Prize, Canada's most prestigious non-fiction literary award. Butler's work has also been a notable selection in both Best American Sports and Best American Travel Writing multiple times. "Ghost of Capablanca," Butler's essay on chess in Cuba, was selected for inclusion in the 2018 Best American Travel Writing book.
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