Book Launch: Join the Conspiracy by Jonathan Butler in conversation with Jeremy Varon

About the Author.

Jonathan Butler is a Brooklyn-based writer and entrepreneur. A financial journalist earlier in his career, Jonathan launched the local real estate and architecture blog Brownstoner.com in the earliest days of online and social media, growing it into the largest website in Brooklyn before selling it ten years later in 2015. In 2008, Jonathan co-founded the Brooklyn Flea, New York City’s biggest flea market business, and three years later launched Smorgasburg, the artisanal food festival that supports hundreds of diverse mom-and-pop businesses and has attracted millions of visitors from all over the world to its weekly locations in Brooklyn, Los Angeles and Miami. Jonathan has received awards for his writing and civic work from the Brooklyn Historical Society, the Historic Districts Council, and the Municipal Art Society. He received his BA in American History from Princeton University in 1992 and an MBA from New York University in 1998. He resides with his wife and two children in Clinton Hill.