Tibor Fischer received a galley of Inherent Vice, the new Thomas Pynchon book coming out this summer:

The most striking thing about is that if you had handed me the first 30 pages, I would have staked my life I was reading the opening of the new Elmore Leonard.

The lean, witty lines recounting the exploits of hippy private dick Doc Sportello in Sixties LA (albeit with a nod to Raymond Chandler) absolutely smacks of Leonard and his humorous imagination (how about a crooked Jewish property developer with Nazi biker bodyguards?).

Will this become the new gateway Pynchon, replacing The Crying of Lot 49? (via omnivoracious)