Brin-Jonathan Butler

📚: The Domino Diaries 🇨🇺 (shortlisted for PEN/ESPN Award) & The Grandmaster for Simon + Schuster (longlisted RBC Taylor Prize); repped Mollie Glick CAA

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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)

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@RealEmirHan My interpretation was always this was taking us in Cliff’s head &, in so doing, into white male fragility about Bruce. The rewriting of history in the film’s ending could also be the same thing with Cliff’s acid trip allowing him a happy ending retaining his role with DiCaprio.

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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

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@michekyakeymii Along the same lines, this made me think about the utility of humor/satire in illustrating, instantly, our sense of proportionality for almost any cause or advocated issue. When most moral grandstanding is humorless, it’s also likely insecure about its sense of proportion.

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On the latest episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Author and journalist Brin-Jonathan Butler (@brinicio) chronicles the disturbing history of chess’ greatest players and those obsessed with the game. Watch on YouTube and listen on podcast platforms now.
https://t.co/z6qWAHCSSd

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

https://t.co/ziLk31h6gv

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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

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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

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@Dan_Zep Hi Dan, would love to have you on my podcast to discuss your new book. We’ve had on Michael Lewis, Jon Ronson, Jon Lee Anderson, Louis Theroux and many others. Please DM if you’re interested. Thanks

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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

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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

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Can’t believe it’s been 24 years since this clip of the best robot dance of all time dropped

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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

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@daviddunning6 Hi David. I was hoping for an opportunity to interview you for a book I’m working on regarding The Dunning-Krueger effect. Many thanks if you could DM contact info.

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

https://t.co/3g7bq1OGhM

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@TheCinesthetic The Vanishing (1988)

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

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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

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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

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@RajaFlores @parisreview @ajrod @bySLPrice @joerogan @louistheroux @lancearmstrong @gergilroy @ringmagazine @jfreewright @idriselba Yes. Just awful.

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Kid Chocolate in Havana, one of the most magical places I’ve ever experienced, demolished to make room for a luxury hotel 🙁 wrote about it for @parisreview below:

https://t.co/qWjTRUKw7k

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@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