Yesterday, the day after the election, all the literary weblogs that I read were either on hiatus or openly mourning the results of the election. Today Conversational Reading and The Reading Experience have both commneted on that.

Questions come to mind about the relationship between literature and politics. Is it really all that out-of-the-way for literary people to have thoughts on politics? I don’t think so.

On the other hand, comments about comments about politics are not exactly comments about literature, but an interesting read nonetheless.