By Mattea Roach
Anarchist revolutionary Emma Goldman slipped into author Robert Hough’s consciousness on a walk with his dog.
The Toronto author was thinking about the subject of his next book and says that a voice came into his head, suggesting Goldman as a character.
“All I really knew was that she was an anarchist, probably the most famous anarchist of all time,” he said on an episode of Bookends with Mattea Roach.
“Other than that, I knew nothing about her.”
After reading the first 80 pages of her autobiography, Hough knew he was onto something.
His new novel, Anarchists In Love, tells the story of Goldman’s formative first two years in New York City where, at 20, she began her life as an anarchist and met her longtime revolutionary companion, Sasha Berkman.
