Crawl

(Graywolf Press, Oct. 21)

I met Max Delsohn when they watched the door at Hugo House. But it was the original Hugo House. The filthy, perfect, tiny old house with a stage and a bar and offices upstairs and disgusting carpet and books and people who read and wrote them, in and out, always. This is the Seattle of Delsohn’s Crawl, a dare I say perfect, albeit unsuspecting, series of stories about trans, queer Seattle in the 2010s. In these tales, we go on a sad and lonely trek through Seattle’s gay bar scene with a trans narrator exploring his new interest in men. We watch straights nearly ruin Pride Sunday by showing up at Dykiki (Denny Blaine’s most queer beach), and we spend a day at Cal Anderson with a narrator who wanders in and out of queer dramas, LSD highs, and Fireball lows.

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