Is there such a thing as progressive fiction? Laura interviews Ethan Canin, the author of America America and David Rosen, Editor in Chief of the Progressive Book Club about what progressive fiction might look like. Canin says that the empathy of fiction can give us a keyhole eye view to another world and that a politics of generosity goes beyond such labels as left and right. So could he imagine a George Bush or Dick Cheney in empathic terms? Find out here. If you're heading to the beach, the Progressive Book Club celebrates its one month anniversary and offers some summer reading selections, new and old.