Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸Cavar 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Hang out with me and @maxdelsohn.bsky.social on 9/10!!! www.crowdcast.io/c/septmeetme...crowdcast.ioMeet Me There: Featuring Cavar and Max DelsohnRegister now for Meet Me There: Featuring Cavar and Max Delsohn on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on September 10, 2026, 07:30 PM EDT. 042
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Doing a virtual event next week you should come I will read from the gay trans sex book (Crawl) www.crowdcast.io/c/septmeetme...crowdcast.ioMeet Me There: Featuring Cavar and Max DelsohnRegister now for Meet Me There: Featuring Cavar and Max Delsohn on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on September 10, 2026, 07:30 PM EDT. 000
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Been wanting to do a post like this for a while now…. The books that made CRAWL possible. Not an exhaustive list, obviously. Really cool how different my reading is/has been for the novel I’m working on, too. 040
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Crawl: Stories by @maxdelsohn.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social & Kiss Marry Kill by Yemi Dipeolu, @faberbooks.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookstagram 052
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Really honored my 2020 essay “We Do Not Belong Everywhere” was included here alongside so many writers that have meant so much to me over the years. 061
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸Jonathan Wlodarski @jonathanwlodarski.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I loved @maxdelsohn.bsky.social's CRAWL—just one banger after another. The characters and the places they inhabit feel so alive in these stories. The last piece: so electric and devastating!! Read this book! #Booksky #QueerBooks 1212
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 04/06/2026Thank you @caiomajor.bsky.social for this thoughtful piece on REALISTIC FICTION and CRAWL Go read it and think deeply about transmasculine experience as seen through the short story form 232
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸B. Pladek @bpladek.bsky.social · 30/05/2026this is v good. sending out energy into the universe that we can get more trans masc litfic like CRAWL / Realistic Fiction (& also unlike them. I too love horny irony abt masculinity’s inherent absurdity & am tired of Representation, but I want more than both. fill the desert) 142
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 30/05/2026Oh yes this is real lit crit a+++ read it read it 072
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 30/05/2026OMG whoa @caiomajor.bsky.social has the goods on @aaantons.bsky.social, @maxdelsohn.bsky.social and CLASH + REALISTIC FICTION www.metropolitanreview.org/p/submerged-...metropolitanreview.orgSubmerged Populations vs. RepresentationOn Max Delsohn’s ‘CRAWL’ and Anton Solomonik’s ‘Realistic Fiction’ 082
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026You think I can’t post???? Oh I most CERTAINLY can POST…… 020
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Found myself googling 'dog food for dogs' just now :( 110
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I am so grateful for this particularly insightful and beautifully written review of CRAWL—This is one of the most thorough appreciations of the book as a whole/its overarching ambitions I’ve read yet. 011
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Hey #transrightsreadathon people… Here’s what I got for you: 1. Short stories, every MC is transmasc 2. Litfic 3. Funny? (I used to be a stand up) 4. NOT feel good/It Gets Better coded (proceed with caution!) My book came out in October, so this is my first time trying to promote during TRR 😇😎 150
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Holy hell…. This is the critical engagement of my DREAMS!!!!! Thank you @runtalien.bsky.social and @whoevenreads.bsky.social for this incredibly incisive and vulnerable essay about my story “All Time Low” in CRAWL and, what else, straight girls 🫠 This is just the stuff of dreams for me. Thank you. 242
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I took almost no photos at AWP because I was too busy, but I got some great books, and I saw some amazing friends/writers, and it helped erase some of the bad memories of my last AWP in 2020. I hope those of you who went had a good rime, and if I missed you, I hope to see you in Chicago next year 💗 091
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸June @july-august-sept.bsky.social · 01/01/2026And Crawl by Max Delsohn is a hilarious, charming, and insightful debut short story collection. It filled an untapped niche in time/place of trans realist fiction with 2010s Seattle; I appreciated the break from NYC! (3/3) 021
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Favorite books, films, and albums of the year in no particular order :) 2111
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸Ruby Rosenthal @rubyprosenthal.bsky.social · 22/12/2025LOVED Crawl by @maxdelsohn.bsky.social (from @graywolfpress.bsky.social) so much this year!!! 083
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 18/12/2025@penguinpress.bsky.social, @wwnorton.com, @tinhouse.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social, and University of North Texas Press. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/18/t...chireviewofbooks.comThe Best Short Story Collections of 2025 - Chicago Review of BooksOur favorite short story collections of 2025. 074
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸City Cast Seattle @citycastseattle.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Looking for your next read? Creative producer @samjleeds.bsky.social compiled favorite Seattle books from @maxdelsohn.bsky.social, @mhgreen3000.bsky.social, and @janehu.bsky.social here: seattle.citycast.fm/guides/local...seattle.citycast.fmLocal Authors To Read This Winter in Seattle - City Cast SeattleRecently, host Jane C. Hu, contributor Marcus Harrison Green and author Max Delsohn got together on the podcast to share some of their favorite books by Seattle authors. 083
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸CHUM News @chum.news · 10/12/2025Author @maxdelsohn.bsky.social’s first-ever published book, Crawl, a series of short stories about transmasc life in Seattle in the 2010s, is the most delightful—and sometimes also devastating—thing we’ve read this year. The first in our “Dining and Writing” series: www.chum.news/dining-writi... 033
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸City Cast Seattle @citycastseattle.bsky.social · 08/12/2025On today's show: @maxdelsohn.bsky.social and @mhgreen3000.bsky.social give their Seattle book recs! Marcus's pick: We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, written by Frank Abe & Tamiko Nimura Max's pick: The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore 063
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 01/12/2025One of my favorite conversations about CRAWL, no question. Topics include the himboification of trans men, my “scribe problem” theory of MFA programs, a quick dunk on the downtown scene, Robyn, Lorrie Moore, and Chase Strangio :-) open.substack.com/pub/clarefro...open.substack.comIf all trans men are himbos, none of them are going to read this bookAn interview with author Max Delsohn 020
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 17/11/2025CRAWL? On this list of BEST DEBUT BOOKS OF 2025???? It’s more likely than you think….. 031
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast @fnfpodcast.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Fiction 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. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/max-delsohn-...lithub.comMax Delsohn on the Importance of Portraying Trans MenFiction 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… 084
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸Trans Librarian @translibrarian.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A short story collection that " looks beneath the surface of trans life in 2010s Seattle" #transbooks translibrarian.com/books/crawl/ 031
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸Caio Major @caiomajor.bsky.social · 23/10/2025I have a new post up, reviewing the short story collection CRAWL by Max Delsohn, which you should read. open.substack.com/pub/caiomajo...open.substack.comTrans Community in Max Delsohn's CRAWLHot 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. 021
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸Debutiful @debutiful.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Listen 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 053
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 24/10/2025One thing about the airport…. So many guys talking on phone 020
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 23/10/2025WE'RE THE LATEST IN LIFE AND CULTURE TODAY BOYS!!!!!!! 060
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Happy 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! 🎉🎉 graywolfpress.org/books/crawl 021
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 21/10/2025"Funny, psychologically astute, and full of sharp imagery." @rubyprosenthal.bsky.social's review of “Crawl” by Max Delsohn (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/21/w...chireviewofbooks.comWriting the Trans Experience with Humor and Charm in Max Delsohn’s “Crawl” - Chicago Review of BooksThere’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... 034
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸Moss @mosslit.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Big 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!bookshop.orgCrawl: StoriesStories 142
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 17/10/2025A book that I wrote is going to be published in 4 days 020
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Can 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 !!! 153
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2025an interview with max delsohn (me) open.substack.com/pub/theyread...open.substack.coman interview with max delsohnthe tyranny of self-knowledge, pineapple gummy bears, and the ur-story 020
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2025One Month Until CRAWL open.substack.com/pub/maxpract...open.substack.comOne Month Until CRAWLA book about transgender!!! Ever heard of it?? 030
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 16/08/2025KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW LETS GO BOYS www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...kirkusreviews.comCRAWL | Kirkus ReviewsDelsohn captures the pathos and humor of transmasculine life in this entrancing debut collection. 010
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Absolutely surreal stuff of dreams shit--blurb from Andrea Lawlor for CRAWL 040
Reposted by Max Delsohn 🇵🇸William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Things 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...chuffed.orgSouth 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** 08998
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Thank you Matt Seidel and @publisherswkly.bsky.social for naming me a Fall 2025 Writer to Watch!! 👀👀👀👀 020
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Pre order CRAWL which does dutifully feature The Mountain 031
