Lump It or Leave It

The misanthropic essayist takes a caustic look at topics including higher education, traditional values, feminist obsessions, and advice to the South. Lump It or Leave It , Florence King’s latest volume of rapier-edged contemplations on American tomfoolery—er, values —takes on everything from the hazards of fame to the joys of menopause, with all the bile and brio that has made her the nation’s most beloved misanthrope. From college professors (“incapable of earning a living with either their mi