The Whore of AkronAfter 52 long years, the city of Cleveland finally has a new championship team, thanks to LeBron James and his Cavaliers. Scott RaabCleveland super fanhas suffered for every one of those five decades of drought. In the tradition of Frederick Exleys cult classic sports book A Fans Notes, The Whore of Akron is Raabs hilarious and unhinged plea for deliverance from all those years of pain. Traveling from Cleveland to Miami and back again, Raab heads out

ever-inventive

founding era

a world rendered in elegant detail—you will fall in love with every page of these stories

a woman in Nevada became the first known case in the U

The stakes: nothing less than the future of the Western world

hardworking and überresponsible

of human creativity and the written word

athletic Katie

soon to be a movie starring Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell

rediscovering a lost self that burned with artistic fervor

That summer—more than ten years ago

where in history