No Happy Endings

No Happy Endings: Cinema From The Red Light District Of Sports

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

Spoke with Chris Jones (@EnswellJones )about his devastating memoir and how he put the pieces back together. It includes how he first got his job at Esquire, one of my favorite writer origin stories of all time.

https://t.co/bO5uUbnc9A

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

Spoke with David Gessner about his new book on the world’s most famous owl, Flaco. The Book Of Flaco tells his story. It’s awfully good:

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[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

10 years ago I asked George Foreman if he had any interest in talking about Teofilo Stevenson. He immediately invited me down to his home to Houston. Such a generous, kind spirit and just an incredible character. RIP Big George 🥊

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[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

Spoke with @Adita_Ferrer about her wonderful Pulitzer-winning book Cuba: An American History.

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[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

This week I spoke with A.L. Kennedy (@Writerer) about her remarkable book On Bullfighting, which was just rereleased on audiobook. The book covers so much fantastic history of Spain, Lorca, duende, and explores writing on such a vital level:

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[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

Spoke with @PaulCantor about his terrific new book on the life of #MacMiller which got a very strong review in the NYT today:

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[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

Spoke with @JennyValentish about her career and new fascinating book Everything Harder Than Everyone Else: Why Some of Us Push Our Bodies to Extremes:

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[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

This week I spoke with @KenBurns about his new @PBS 4-part, 8-hr film series on @MuhammadAli coming out Sept 19 #MuhammadAli:

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[Hazlitt @Hazlitt]

"It was yours to always return to a minute ago, then it snaps into focus that you’re just passing through, spooked by the winking force of inevitability that somewhere down the line you’ll have to let it go." https://t.co/kzB3ulqHla #longreads

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.” -Italo Calvino

https://t.co/af7ljNDcoA #longreads @Hazlitt

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

For @Hazlitt I interviewed Jack Nicholson about “the biggest adventure of his career” & went to Spain to locate Michelangelo Antonioni’s Hotel de la Gloria, along the way the news of #AnthonyBourdain arrived:

https://t.co/af7ljNDcoA #longreads (huge thanks to @jordanginsberg)

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

This week I interviewed @TeddyAtlasReal and it ended up being one of my favorite conversations I’ve ever recorded: believing he had to become one of his father’s patients to reach him, @MikeTyson, and so much about Cus D’Amato:

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[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

This week I spoke with best selling author @mkonnikova and @NewYorker writer about conmen and the psychology of deception, embarking on a successful poker career, and her brilliant career in journalism and books:

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[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

First time back since Covid to visit my favorite little cafe in NYC, The Hungarian Pastry Shop. Glanced around to see what new books were written there hanging on the wall. Ambushed to see a couple of mine. My Hungarian mother apparently pulled some strings 🙂 🇭🇺

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

This week @StevenBenedict2 and I explored the conversation btw the characters Brando played in Last Tango In Paris and On The Waterfront (both boxers) on this week’s episode of No Happy Endings:

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[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

Interviewed “The Herring Wonder” @JonathanAmes about his illustrious boxing and literary career, along with his fantastic new book “A Man Named Doll:”

https://t.co/rgRjtfQ8wX

[Ken Burns @KenBurns]

"Attuned to gender inequity? Check. Aware of generational trauma? Ditto. Hungry for fame? Oh, yes indeed."

Love this framing of Hemingway as a "Millennial Avatar" - @brinicio in @business / @BW on our upcoming @PBS film (w/ @LynnNovick) airing April 5.

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[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

Thrilled to have interviewed @LynnNovick and @KenBurns about their upcoming 3-part, 6-hour @PBS documentary on Ernest Hemingway. Unsparing yet compassionate marvel of a documentary:

https://t.co/METoU0GBJm

[Ken Burns @KenBurns]

It's been such a pleasure talking with you about Hemingway, @brinicio. Thank you so much.

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

Had a very interesting chat with @CKlosterman for @touristinfopod. My favorite item: when readers know a writer’s actual voice and hear that in their heads instead of their own voice reading a writer’s words and how that effects the experience for both:

https://t.co/I0e2bnfYCk