Earlier this week, my home institution, the University of Central Florida (UCF), hosted its fourth biennial “Faculty Authors’ Celebration” to honor professors who have published literary works in the previous two years, and among my favorite works to be showcased at this wonderful event was the beautiful book Smothered and Covered: Waffle House and the Southern Imaginary by my colleague and new friend Ty Matejowsky, who teaches anthropology at UCF. (Check out his bio here.)

Note: I will feature a few other works that caught my attention in the next day or two, before I begin my promised review (see here) of Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society by Philip K. Howard.