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Unlike in Emma Goldman’s days, when anarchism had a strict rule book, modern-day anarchism was more of a tone, a contour, a sensibility.

Robert Hough’s most recent novel is Anarchists in Love .

One thing I’ve found about being a novelist is that the profession, while gluing you to a chair for the majority of your life, can also, on occasion, place you in unusual situations. Case in point: In September I published a novel which dramatizes anarchist Emma Goldman’s plot to assassinate the Gilded Age industrialist Henry C. Frick, a mission she undertook with her lifelong companion, a fellow revolutionary named Alexander Berkman.

As such, I recently found myself with a table at an event called the Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair, which is held every September at the Workers Arts and H

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