Max Delsohn with Riley Yaxley: CRAWL
Thu, Nov 13
|Chicago
The Chicago launch of Max Delsohn’s new short story collection from Graywolf Press, Crawl, which Carmen Maria Machado calls “a horny, hilarious, bittersweet romp through millennial transmasc malaise.”
Time & Location
Nov 13, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Chicago, 1522 W Jarvis Ave, Chicago, IL 60626, USA
About the event
Please join us for the Chicago launch of Max Delsohn's debut story collection, Crawl. Max will be in conversation with local author Riley Yaxley.
Here's a taste of the rave reviews this collection is attracting:
“Delsohn captures the pathos and humor of transmasculine life in this entrancing debut. . . . [He] displays enviable craft throughout the collection, evident in the skillfully composed arc of every story and the deftness and wit of individual lines. . . . This is a no-skips collection.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“Adventurous, witty, heartfelt, and very moving, Crawl takes us on a journey through the land of longing and reminds us, in the way that only literature can, that we all live in that land; that ‘identity’ has to do with the particular, lovely flavor of our longing, and of that essential pursuit called: trying to be one’s true self. Max Delsohn, a wildly talented,…