Comfort reading …

… Philip Hensher - A Spoonful of Elmore | Literary Review | Issue 483. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

To me, Elmore Leonard is as comforting in extremity as Pym, and as safe, in the last resort, as Wodehouse. The guys with the best lines are going to come out the other side; the dumb fucks are going to get it in the head or chest; and we are going to hear as much of the word motherfucker as we will of dashed in a Jeeves story. Typing it, I feel a little better already.