Richard ‘Rick’ Boothby lives in Baltimore, where he has served as a professor of philosophy for nearly forty years at Loyola University Maryland. His scholarly interests are wide-ranging but his publishing record has focused primarily on intersections between the psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious and contemporary continental philosophy. Boothby’s books include Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud (1995), 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 is currently finishing a book aimed at a broader audience, tentatively titled Socrates in America: An Adventure in Philosophy.
Twenty Shadows
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Twenty Shadows
Jun 2026
Twenty Shadows
Richard Boothby
- 978-1-0684395-3-7
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm
- 300 pp.
- Paperback
- June 2026
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Holy Smoke
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Holy Smoke
Dec 2025
Holy Smoke
Fanny Howe
Last night I dreamed I had a name. It was Anon. My parents gave it to me. They sat in the back of my cab. I saw them, alive again! through the rearview mirror, soft and smiling. Where I was taking them, I do not know. Where they came from, a mystery. Why they said, “Your real name is Anon,” I'll never know … But now that I have a name, I know I must write … I’m scared, but feel it is time to be really bad.
Revised with the author for republication for the first time since its 1979 release, Holy Smoke is an account of the frenzy and paranoia of United States politics refracted through one individual’s psyche. Concentrated on a child disappeared and all that phrase carries with it, Howe captures the chaos of reality in her characteristic mix of poetry and prose. Giving genuinely fresh sense to the demand for universal human rights, readers will be astounded to learn that this book was written in the last century.
- 978-1-0684395-1-3
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm
- 104 pp.
- Paperback
- December 2025
About the author
Fanny Howe (1940–2025) was the author of more than fifty books of poetry and prose. She taught literature and writing throughout her life and was professor emerita in literature at the University of California, San Diego. Howe mentored a generation of American poets, activists and scholars working at the intersection of experimental and metaphysical forms of thinking.
Endorsements (3)
Howe prefers the clarity of misunderstanding to the blur of certainty.
Poet of unsettled dreams.
Reading her fiction feels something like facing a patch of wilderness—startling, beautiful, yet terrifyingly mysterious.
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Poetry: Fanny Howe reads from her novel "Holy Smoke", just out from Fiction CollectivePacifica Radio Archives15/07/1979
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| 11 December | Brussels | Fanny Howe tribute, launch of Holy Smoke at Celador |