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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If you've been following popular culture, you know that one of the most popular shows of the last year is The Queen's Gambit, which debuted on Netflix in October of 2020. Adapted from the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis, the stylish miniseries starring Anya Taylor-Joy is about the life of fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon. Due to the popularity of the show, the gaming industry saw an unprecedented interest in chess; sales of books about chess and chess boards skyrocketed! Whether you are a theory nerd or hungry for a lesson in the game’s history, these chess-related listens are a great opener.

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