A rather clever literary parlour game is spreading across the net. We could call it Dude, Where's Your Subtitle?: How Modern Book Marketing Would Try to Turn Classics into Hits. That link takes you to the originator, but I first came across it at Crooked Timber, where the commenters, being terribly clever, are playing it backwards and indulging in the Ludlum Variation.

• Osama bin Laden, meanwhile, is apparently doing reading recommendations. I suggest Amazon checks its database for records of deliveries to caves.

• Let us now praise Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

• In a comment below the previous linklog, TonyONeill asks where our tribute to Jim Carroll is. It's by Alastair Harper, it appeared some little while after the comment, and it was on the Music Blog, although it's now also on this one. Such are the perils of polymathy.

• No one needs to ask where the Dan Brown coverage is. Only two links to add: some sarcastic close reading from Steven Poole, and Slate's deadpan explanation of why there aren't any professors of symbology.