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Max Delsohn 🇵🇸
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My debut short story collection CRAWL is forthcoming from Graywolf Press Oct 2025 and I am a transsexual man. Pre order the book here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/crawl-stories-max-delsohn/22144102
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Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 24d
WE'RE THE LATEST IN LIFE AND CULTURE TODAY BOYS!!!!!!!
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Fiction writer @maxdelsohn.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his debut short story collection, Crawl, intracommunity violence, and the Trump administration’s vicious assault on transgender Americans.
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Max Delsohn on the Importance of Portraying Trans Men
Fiction writer Max Delsohn joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his debut short story collection, Crawl, which features a number of transmasculine characters. Delsohn a…
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October 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A short story collection that " looks beneath the surface of trans life in 2010s Seattle" #transbooks

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Cover image. Three gummies (blue, orange and clear) on a pink background. Crawl: Stories by Max Delsohn.
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I have a new post up, reviewing the short story collection CRAWL by Max Delsohn, which you should read. open.substack.com/pub/caiomajo...
Trans Community in Max Delsohn's CRAWL
Hot off the presses, a new cure for the male loneliness epidemic: A whole short story collection about non-isolated men?? It's as hilarious as it sounds.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Listen to @maxdelsohn.bsky.social read from CRAWL on the First Taste Reading Series!

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/32Bl... @graywolfpress.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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One thing about the airport…. So many guys talking on phone
October 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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WE'RE THE LATEST IN LIFE AND CULTURE TODAY BOYS!!!!!!!
October 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Happy pub. day to @maxdelsohn.bsky.social's
CRAWL, a darkly comic, introspective debut story collection that looks beneath the surface of trans life in 2010s Seattle. Pick up a copy from your local indie bookstore today, and catch Max on tour this fall! 🎉🎉⁠

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The cover of Max Delsohn's book "Crawl" shows the authors's name in white font at the top, the title "Crawl" in the middle in white font, and the subtitle "Stories" at the bottom in white font. Behind the text are three sideways gummy bears (blue, yellow, and white) against a pink background.
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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"Funny, psychologically astute, and full of sharp imagery."

@rubyprosenthal.bsky.social's review of “Crawl” by Max Delsohn (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) is out now.
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Writing the Trans Experience with Humor and Charm in Max Delsohn’s “Crawl”  - Chicago Review of Books
There’s a tense moment when Matthew, a transmasculine character in Crawl—a smart, funny debut short story collection by Max Delsohn—is chatting casually with Harvest, his boss’s boss, at his workplace...
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October 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Big congrats to @maxdelsohn.bsky.social on the publication of CRAWL, out today from @graywolfpress.bsky.social!

We love this collection so much! Order it here: bookshop.org/p/books/craw...

& stay tuned for Alayna Becker's interview w Max in Moss Vol. 10, out very soon!
Crawl: Stories
Stories
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October 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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LONG LIVE LILAC PERIL
lilacperil.bsky.social Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 28d
We had sooo much fun at our workshop with @maxdelsohn.bsky.social yesterday!! Don’t miss him while he’s in town on 10/29 peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/crawl/
October 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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A book that I wrote is going to be published in 4 days
October 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Can you believe we forgot to post this here? We are doing a DOUBLE FEATURE this month with THE @maxdelsohn.bsky.social to celebrate the release of Crawl !!!
Lilac Peril presents Max Delsohn's DOUBLE FEATURE virtual workshop Sat, October 18 at 2 PM EST HOW TO "KILL LIES:" WRITING AGAINST RECEIVED LANGUAGE reading + q & a Wed, October 29 at 6 PM EST PEOPLE'S BOOK 7014-A WESTMORELAND AVE, TAKOMA PARK, MARYLAND 20912 Max Delsohn's writing appears in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, VICE, Joyland, The Rumpus, and Triangle House, among other places. His debut short story collection, Crawl, about trans men in Seattle during the 2010s, will be published by Graywolf Press on Oct. 21, 2025. He earned his MFA in fiction from Syracuse University. He lives in Los Angeles.
October 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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CRAWL made the November Indie Next list 🫠🫠🫠
October 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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CRAWL TOUR COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU
October 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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an interview with max delsohn (me) open.substack.com/pub/theyread...
an interview with max delsohn
the tyranny of self-knowledge, pineapple gummy bears, and the ur-story
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September 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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One Month Until CRAWL
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One Month Until CRAWL
A book about transgender!!! Ever heard of it??
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September 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW LETS GO BOYS www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
CRAWL | Kirkus Reviews
Delsohn captures the pathos and humor of transmasculine life in this entrancing debut collection.
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August 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Absolutely surreal stuff of dreams shit--blurb from Andrea Lawlor for CRAWL
August 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Things are unimaginably bad. The Sameer Project's South Gaza campaign operation is under intense crisis. They're trying to find any food they can to help people in serious need. If you can, please donate! The situation is getting worse every day.
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South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water
**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**
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July 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Thank you Matt Seidel and @publisherswkly.bsky.social for naming me a Fall 2025 Writer to Watch!! 👀👀👀👀
publisherswkly.bsky.social Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · Jul 21
This fall’s hottest debut fiction is all about location, location, location, whether in stories about crazed house hunters, Upstate New York politics, hypocrisy in the Deep South, or finance in the Middle East.
Writers to Watch: Fall 2025
This fall’s hottest debut fiction is all about location, location, location, whether in stories about crazed house hunters, Upstate New York politics, hypocrisy in the Deep South, or finance in the…
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July 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Pre order CRAWL which does dutifully feature The Mountain
elanorjb.bsky.social Nora 🐝 @elanorjb.bsky.social · Jul 3
under-appreciated aspect of Pacific Northwest culture is that wherever you live, you will have The Mountain. It varies place by place but you will always have that One to which you are deeply personally and metaphysically attached. Always one — like Portland had two so they had to blow one up
July 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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“Transgender life” -Lady Gaga
June 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Thank you so much @debutiful.bsky.social and @vitcavage.bsky.social for including CRAWL as a Most Anticipated 2025 Debut 😭😭😭
debutiful.bsky.social Debutiful @debutiful.bsky.social · Jun 26
The Most Anticipated Debut Books of July-December 2025, according to @vitcavage.bsky.social

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June 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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"I was new to stand-up and new to men."

Today's queer story is "Sex is a Leisure Activity" by
@maxdelsohn.bsky.social!
Sex is a Leisure Activity
Before this, Gene was just a stand-up I knew, a good one, he had headlined a show in a bookstore that I’d featured for once or twice. He was a storyteller type with a close, sharp eye, almost literary...
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June 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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So surreal and wonderful to see more galleys make their way into the world ❤️😭
caitluce.bsky.social Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · Jun 6
Friday June 6: "Crawl" by Max Delsohn. "There in the bright, nearly-empty sports bar, Jack decided that thus would be the year he loved men."
Galley of Crawl bright pink with three gummy bears sideways top to bottom blue, yellow, and white. Crawl is a short story collection about trans life set in 2010s Seattle. Due out in October from Graywolf Press.
June 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM