Seattle Public Library: Max Delsohn presents 'Crawl'

Schedule

Wed Nov 05 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Seattle Public Library - Central Library | Seattle, WA

A sharply recognizable yet exhilaratingly transcendent fantasia of transmasculine life in 2010s Seattle.
About this Event

In partnership with Seattle Public Library, Third Place Books is proud to present a conversation with author Max Delsohn on his debut new short story collection, , which follows a cast of transmasculine twenty-somethings to parks, workplaces, and nude beaches; through misbehavior, weird trips, love, and discovery; towards the pleasure and the pain of possibility.

Location: Seattle Central Library — Microsoft Auditorium

“Max Delsohn has a poet’s sense of yearning, a stand-up’s sense of timing, and a 3 a.m. hookup’s desperate frankness about sex—all of which combine to make Crawl one of my favorite story collections of the past few years.”—Torrey Peters, author of Stag Dance and Detransition, Baby

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About Crawl. . .

A darkly comic, introspective debut collection that looks beneath the surface of trans life in 2010s Seattle.

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 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.


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.


About Third Place Books

Founded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at thirdplacebooks.com/events.

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Seattle Public Library - Central Library, 1000 4th Avenue, Seattle, United States
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