text: You can read about about another sports book Dave loves, which appears in the recent Essay Daily collection published by Coffee House Press here.
  You can read more about Allan and Andrew and Dave in a recent Best American Essays 2017 notable selection here.
  You can read about the first essay he hoped Bud liked (a Best American 2015 notable and an Iowa Review contest winner) here.
  And you can read his Christmas Eve entry from last year's Advent Calendar here, or from New Year's Eve here.
  Feels weird dropping a writer with 479K Twitter followers into this “recovery” mix, but here I am, because seriously, has anyone actually read @dougcoupland’s essays? Maybe not.
  Admission: I’ve only read “The German Reporter” once, and that was years ago. I’ve never felt a need to read it again, though I’ve thought about it often. And I avoided rereading it before writing this because the point is I don’t care about the finer points of this essay at all.