Fanny Howe was born on 15 October 1940 in Buffalo, New York. She is the author of more than fifty books of poetry and prose, and taught literature and writing throughout her life, mentoring a generation of American poets, activists and scholars working at the intersection of experimental and metaphysical thinking. She was professor emerita in literature at the University of California, San Diego, until her death on 8 July 2025 in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Night Philosophy
£ 11.99
Night Philosophy
Fanny Howe
Night Philosophy is collected around the figure of the child, the figure of the child not just as a little person under the tutelage of adults, but also the submerged one, who knows, who is without power, who doesn’t matter. The book proposes a minor politics that disperses all concentrations of power. Fanny Howe chronicles the weak and persistent, those who never assimilate at the cost of having another group to dominate.
Afterword by Chris Kraus.
- 978-1-9164250-2-6
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm
- 130 pp.
- Paperback
- 28 January 2020
About the author
Endorsements (5)
This book is a prism through which Earth’s ancient songs and tales are distilled; restored to light. It is also a manual for surviving evil. The most important thing for you to understand is that Fanny Howe is a rebel, down to the cellular level. She walks with the prophets and with the unborn. There is no writer like her.
Fanny Howe is simply one of the best and most innovative writers alive.
Night Philosophy is sharp and precise. All the time, like a powerful undercurrent, a voltage charger, or Cordelia speaking, language itself exerts its primacy; it insists on remaining true not just to human hope, human feeling, or the questing spirit, but to some idea of a power beyond ourselves.
History and images of what we do to each other are illuminated, and then made to sing lurid, fluid truth.
Fanny Howe is a hallowed voice of the violent and brutal twentieth century. A sacred idiot, a wise friend who passes a bottle of warmth through the icy night, who fishes for what haunts the depths.
Press (16)
Mine for yours: My favorite fiction, poetry, non-fiction, film, art, and internet of 2020 so farDC’s16/06/2020
‘The underworld, the deep sea …’ according to Fanny HoweBrixton Review of Books, Issue 9, Spring1310/03/2020
Cut by Fanny HoweAnOther Magazine, Document literary supplement (ed. Hannah Lack), Issue 38, Spring/Summer162020
Rights
- Danish (Møllegades)
Twenty Shadows
£ 13.99
Pre order in Europe
Twenty Shadows
£ 13.99
Twenty Shadows
Richard Boothby
This singular book brings together the reflections of one of our greatest living philosophers with a father’s grief.
Taking its title from Shakespeare’s Richard II—“Each substance of grief hath twenty shadows”—this book follows personal tragedy into the murky place where memory and interpretation become indistinguishable. What lies at its heart is a meditation on the unknowability of the other.
Richard Boothby is right that no amount of intellect curbs the impulses of real experience, but that doesn’t mean you have to remain in a state of ignorance. Composed from the leftovers of terrible, unassimilable events, this book gives us bracing indications of ways to live on in a diminished aftermath.
Twenty Shadows tells of a man’s spiritual change following the suicide of his son after a long addiction. Haunted by this loss and the unknown desire of his only child, thinking and writing with a new emptiness, he finds a form of expression that was previously impossible.
- 978-1-0684395-3-7
- 7 b&w illustrations
- 19.8 x 12.8 cm
- 212 pp.
- Paperback
- October 2026
About the author
Richard Boothby is professor emeritus of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. Boothby’s books include Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan’s Return to Freud (1991), Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology after Lacan (2001), Sex on the Couch: What Freud Still Has to Teach Us about Sex and Gender (2006), and Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred (2023). He lives in Baltimore.
Press (1)
Upcoming (1)
| 29 November | Launch of Richard Boothby's Twenty Shadows with Rohit Goel, Charlotte Northall and Julie Reshe, BICAR |