Cancel Me If You Can

Dave Portnoy built Barstool Sports from a free newspaper into a media empire with millions of followers. He’s also been at the center of multiple controversies. Cancel Me If You Can is his version of those events—not a defense exactly, but a refusal to frame his life through the lens of his critics. He writes about how Barstool started, what he got right, what he got wrong, and why he thinks the accountability culture that came for him was more about power than genuine moral reckoning. Readers who already like Portnoy will find this entertaining and validating. Readers who don’t will find him just as aggravating in book form as everywhere else—which he seems to anticipate and not particularly mind. Whatever your position, it’s an honest first-person account of what it’s actually like to operate a media business that attracts intense loyalty and intense opposition simultaneously.