Preface · 3
“Anarchist Book Shop in Chicago Radicals’ Mecca” · 7
Disaffected Unitarians · 9
From Sidewalk to Shoebox, a Store Is Born · 15
The Anarchist Balls · 23
Poisoning the Governor, the Mayor, and the Archbisop · 28
The I.W.W. Raids · 31
Death of a Founder and a New Life · 35
Studio Players · 41
Robots Invented for Weird Communist Play · 46
Kenneth Rexroth Kisses Sister Geraldine · 48
Vincente Minnelli Starts and Quits Acting · 50
A Job for Geraldine, a Few More Plays, then… Nothing · 53
Lillian Died, and Life Moves On · 57
Afterword: A Place for Their Story · 59
APPENDIX
Ibsen’s Latest Utterance · 63
Liberty Vol. 11, No. 4 (Whole No. 316), (June 29, 1895)
(Editorial) · 67
The Stylus, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 1896)
Criticism as an Art · 69
The Stylus, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 1896)
Is Thomas Hardy a Pessimist? · 72
The Stylus, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 1896)
Our National Literature · 75
The Stylus, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 1896)
Stephen Crane as Novelist and Poet · 77
The Stylus, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 1896)
(Note on Nietzsche) · 83
The Stylus, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 1896)
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac · 84
The Stylus, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 1896)
Further Impressions · 89
The Stylus, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 1896)
Jottings · 92
The Stylus, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 1896)
Our Literary Idols · 94
Freeport Daily Democrat (February 12, 1897)
In Behalf of the Educated Blind · 98
Waterbury Republican (July 16, 1910)
Revolutionary Essays · 100
The International Socialist Review, Vol. XV, No. 1 (July 1914)
An American Anarchist · 106
The Little Review, Vol.1, No. 7 (October 1914)
Book Reviews from International Socialist Review · 111
International Socialist Review (September 1905–October 1914)
Notices in The Day Book · 119
The Day Book (March 1915–December 1916)
Index · 123