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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 · 7d

CRAWL TOUR COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU

Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 7d

📢 Don't miss @maxdelsohn.bsky.social on tour this fall! Details:

www.graywolfpress.org/events?field...

Max Delsohn on tour for Crawl:

10/21 @ 6:30 PM | New York, NY
P&T Knitwear
w/ Dana Spiotta

10/24 @ 6:30 PM | Portland, OR
Always Here Bookstore
w/ Callum Angus

10/25 @ 7 PM | Seattle, WA
Elliott Bay Book Company
w/ Corinne Manning

10/27 @ 7 PM | Los Angeles, CA
North Figueroa Bookshop
co-launch w/ Sara Jaffe

10/29 @ 6 PM | Takoma Park, MD
People’s Book
w/ Luke Sutherland

Max Delsohn on tour for Crawl:

10/30 @ 7 PM | Brookline, MA
Brookline Booksmith
w/ Maria Marchinkoski

11/1 @ 6 PM | Syracuse, NY
Parthenon Books
w/ Jonathan Dee

11/4 @ 6 PM | Austin, TX
Alienated Majesty
w/ Deb Olin Unferth
& DJ set by Olivia Shea

11/5 @ 7 PM | Seattle, WA
Seattle Public Library
co-presented by Third Place Books

11/11 @ 6:30 PM | Ann Arbor, MI
Literati Bookstore
w/ Marne Litfin

Max Delsohn on tour for Crawl:

11/12 @ 6 PM | Madison, WI
A Room of One’s Own Bookstore
w/ Emily Mills

11/13 @ 7 PM | Chicago, IL
Jarvis Square Books
w/ Riley Yaxley

12/6 @ 7 PM | Las Vegas, NV
The Writer’s Block
w/ Maile Chapman

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Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 15h

CRAWL made the November Indie Next list 🫠🫠🫠

Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 7d

CRAWL TOUR COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU

Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 7d

📢 Don't miss @maxdelsohn.bsky.social on tour this fall! Details:

www.graywolfpress.org/events?field...

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Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 12d

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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Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 17d

One Month Until CRAWL
open.substack.com/pub/maxpract...

One Month Until CRAWL

A book about transgender!!! Ever heard of it??

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Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · Aug 16

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.

www.kirkusreviews.com

Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · Aug 8

Absolutely surreal stuff of dreams shit--blurb from Andrea Lawlor for CRAWL

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · Jul 21

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.
chuffed.org/project/1132...

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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Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thank you Matt Seidel and @publisherswkly.bsky.social for naming me a Fall 2025 Writer to Watch!! 👀👀👀👀

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

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Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · Jul 7

First 5 literary fiction books that came to mind for transmasc rep by transmasc authors: Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg, Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg, Realistic Fiction by Anton Solomonik, Future Feeling by Joss Lake, Invasions by Calvin Gimpelevich

Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · Jul 7

My book isn’t out yet but it will be in October—it is a short story collection, every MC is somewhere on the transmasculine spectrum, and all I care about is other transmasculine people reading it lol here’s the pre order link: bookshop.org/p/books/craw...

Crawl: Stories

Stories

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Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · Jul 6

Pre order CRAWL which does dutifully feature The Mountain

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

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Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · Jun 29

“Transgender life” -Lady Gaga

Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · Jun 26

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thank you so much @debutiful.bsky.social and @vitcavage.bsky.social for including CRAWL as a Most Anticipated 2025 Debut 😭😭😭

Debutiful @debutiful.bsky.social · Jun 26

The Most Anticipated Debut Books of July-December 2025, according to @vitcavage.bsky.social

debutiful.net/2025/06/26/t...

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · Jun 17

‪
"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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Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · Jun 7

So surreal and wonderful to see more galleys make their way into the world ❤️😭

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.

Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · Jun 1

Omg "if REJECTION was a love letter" is one of the most wonderful compliments my writing has ever received?!?!?!

lou @wanlittlehusk.bsky.social · May 29

read on my flights to and from Seattle. Like if REJECTION was also a love letter. Excited to press it into people’s hands to make them Understand (both what I’m from and why I left)

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Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · May 17

Tim Robinson doing a Macklemore impression…. Is this something?

Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · May 13

One must imagine Sisyphus as a gay guy

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Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · May 8

Have you heard the good word? About transgender?

Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · May 1

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 GALLEYS HAVE LANDED!!!!!

Grace Byron @emotrophywife.bsky.social · Apr 30

galley brag feat @maxdelsohn.bsky.social

Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · Apr 26

A great day to pre-order CRAWL from your local indie, if you haven’t already! Just 2-3 direct pre-orders from a bookstore can be huge for getting bookseller attention, getting the book displayed prominently in the store, etc. Get the trans guys/gay sex/drugs book at the front of YOUR store today!!!

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · Apr 25

Need an excuse to buy more books? Now you have one! Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day! Show your favorite indie some love.

Why Shopping Local This Indie Bookstore Day Is More Important Than Ever

Several independent book store owners are encouraging people to go out to their local independent bookstores to buy some novels to help celebrate Independent Bookstore Day and keep independent busines...

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Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · Apr 13

Some personal news…. …. I am transgender

Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · Apr 8

New author photos just dropped (: Photographs by actual genius Quinn Tucker

Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · Apr 1

I Survived Going Back to CrossFit After Not Going For Three Weeks