Hoping to purge a bit of the scratchings I've been collecting on my notepad, and just in time for Thanksgiving, I lay the table with a feast of links. (My thoughts are the cranberry relish to the internet's stuffed turkey. Or some such nonsense.)

Oodles from The Guardian: new fairy tales by Hilary Mantel, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Audrey Niffenegger; an interview with David Mitchell; Richard Lea's look at publishing in translation, as well as Esther Allen's report on reader's reports; and Lanark judged by its cover.

Stephen Fry embloggulates on the environment. I haven't even read the whole thing, and I'm already exhausted just looking at the word count in what is surely the longest "I'm sorry I haven't been blogging" post ever to be written. I think Eden's approach would have sufficed.

Stephany Aulenback at Crooked House looks at a New York Times article on the suitability of old Sesame Street episodes for today's children and finds little more than a suspect glass of milk.

Maud and Jessa dive into the covers of a scanned version of Perrault's fairy tales. Also from the past, but existing thanks to the present: a video for Granddaddy's "Jed's Other Poem" composed entirely on an Apple IIe. (via Design Observer)

Largehearted Boy is collecting the assorted best of 2007 music lists. Everyone's list is likely to include Radiohead. This has already done the rounds, but I'm playing it again: Radiohead covers The Smiths.

I'm pretty secure in the music I found to be great in 2007, but already I'm getting anxiety over the book list. Still, by my count, the year isn't done yet. There's still reading to be done. Give me time.

(It's becoming a habit of mine to include parenthetical remarks at the end of each post. As if I forgot to tell you something. Or as if this were some sort of excerpt, and I'm telling you that this author has also had work published in The Kenyon Review and National Geographic. I'll use this particular coda to let you know that I'm aware of this. And that I hope it will stop soon.)