Split Decision

Split Decision is an upcoming documentary film chronicling a Cuban boxer's search for the American Dream.

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

Really enjoyed this conversation about my book and the world of chess with one of my journalistic heroes @ChrisLynnHedges:

https://t.co/ziLk31h6gv

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

Spoke with Michael Lewis about Who Is Government, Big Beautiful Bill, Doge, Luigi Mangione, and more uplifting and cheerful topics animating our blissful republic:

https://t.co/moXurOHz1U

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

Stanley Kubrick called 1988’s The Vanishing the most terrifying film he had ever seen. Had a conversation with Jim Shepard about his amazing Believer piece exploring why that is:

https://t.co/L71UDPAxn0

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

This week I spoke to Cian O’Clery, director and show-runner for Love on the Spectrum. While it’s marketed as reality TV it’s absent competition, riches, a recording deal, cringe zero sum battle. And yet the stakes feel impossibly high regarding love:

https://t.co/KwcD3w8chZ

[David Gessner @writingosprey]

Flaco was not just a bird so many loved but an embodiment of the house of mirrors we all now live in. @brinicio @BirdCentralPark https://t.co/QViJYYxkv5

[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:

https://t.co/9YFkkP5kuD

[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 🥊

https://t.co/2BGu0zmSUI

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

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

https://t.co/3g7bq1OGhM

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

@TheCinesthetic Life Is Beautiful last gesture from father to son:

[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:

https://t.co/ndxk1gcj8i

[Laurie Hanna @LaurieHanna]

"How do you expect our eyes to look close to tears when we have no tears left?”

An anguished love letter to #Havana - one of the greatest cities I've ever visited - by the brilliant @brinicio 🇨🇺

https://t.co/asRtscy2wU

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

Last year I visited Havana and 2 heartbreaking jokes floated around: "What does a Cuban child dream of becoming when they grow up? A foreigner. What do you call a Cuban orchestra after a world tour? A soloist."

I wrote about what I saw for @JournalYear:

https://t.co/8lYdHQFTlF

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

@NickLovesSpain Querencia or duende. Both have as much untranslatable majesty as say wabi sabi does with Japanese. A whole philosophy distilled to a word that’s emblematic of an entire culture

[Boxing History @BoxingHistory]

Need an Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury Recap podcast?

Well that's unfortunate, because here's one anyway, featuring @PunchZoneAris, @brinicio and myself.

➡️ https://t.co/c8ZSTZg31U

[Andrew Hammel @AndrewHammel1]

My interview with the American writer Brin-Jonathan Butler about the Adnan Syed case was just released: https://t.co/zwC0BOGqdU

[Boxing History @BoxingHistory]

Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder met three times in three years, and their trilogy was a modern classic.

We revisited the Fury-Wilder trilogy on the @KnucklesNGloves podcast with @PatrickMConnor and @brinicio

➡️ https://t.co/zBllxG4bYl

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

@davidcinema Antonioni’s “The Passenger” by a mile…

https://t.co/af7ljNDKe8

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

@jzux For a 3 day novel writing contest, wrote a book about a girl I rode the bus with for 3 years, but never spoke to, as a kid. She read it at 27 and flew nearly 4400 miles to see me, hoping we would get married.

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

@BenPurkert Handwritten note from a major publisher rejecting my first (awful) novel, submitted at age 20: “This is the wrong book, however I believe you’re in the right profession.”

[Brin-Jonathan Butler @brinicio]

Thank you @briankoppelman and I agree entirely about @MagnusCarlsen…