Max Delsohn w/ Corinne Manning, CRAWL: STORIES

Join Max Delsohn for the release of his collection of stories, Crawl, a darkly comic, introspective debut that looks beneath the surface of trans life in 2010s Seattle. Max Delsohn’s stories—by turns exuberant, heartfelt, tragic, and wry—portray the pleasures and pains of sex and romance, the possibilities and ambivalences of gender expression, and the joys and failures of community in a city and a time that has branded itself a radical queer utopia but proves much more complicated in reality. He is joined by local writer and artist Corinne Manning.

People called it paradise, but baby, it wasn’t.

What to do when starting testosterone unlocks a newfound desire for men? How to respond when your boss’s boss asks if you’ve had “the surgery” and then requests you talk her niece out of transitioning? What obligation do you have to intervene in the faltering mental health of the baby trans drug dealer you’ve met only once while tripping on the acid he sold you?

The young transmasculine characters in Crawl navigate these and other questions in the dive bars, bathhouses, parks, workplaces, music venues, beaches, and college campuses of 2010s Seattle.

Max Delsohn’s writing appears in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, VICE, Joyland, The Rumpus, and Triangle House, among other places. He earned an MFA from Syracuse University. He lives in Los Angeles.

Corinne Manning is the author of the acclaimed story collection We Had No Rules (arsenal pulp press 2020). Their essays and criticism have been published widely including The New York Times and Lux magazine. Corinne's vampire romance, The Treasure Maker, is forthcoming from Generous Press in 2026, and their retelling of Dante's Inferno, Dirty Joke, featuring Italian Americans in hell is forthcoming from Bunny Presse/Fonograph Editions in 2027.

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