Sundry links from around the Web:

• n+1, the brainy journal out of New York City, launches a new literary supplement.
• The Columbia Journalism Review unveils its own books blog.
• Lev Grossman on the future of publishing. The novel, he predicts, is turning into something cheaper, wilder, trashier, more democratic and more deliriously fertile than ever.
• Sarah Palin gets serious in her search for a ridiculous advance publisher.
• From the Guardian: MP calls on government to protect struggling independent booksellers.
• Everything you ever wanted to know about Scandinavian detective fiction but were too afraid to ask.
• Next stop, Dostoevskaya station.
• Save the Washington Post‘s Book World. Sign the petition here.