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APR 3  |  6:30pm at McNally Jackson Seaport

Anton Solomonik presents Realistic Fiction, in conversation with Cat Fitzpatrick

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Finally, a book for men. 

Have you ever engaged in totally normal male behavior like: Stealing porn magazines? Hooking up with guys on Grindr? Attempting to work in an open-pit mine despite having no relevant job experience? Crossdressing as a woman? Attending Gnostic Mass? Running for government office? Then this is a book for you!

It is definitely not a deeply felt collection of transsexual short stories, engaged in dissident metaphysical investigation of the normative tenets of gender in our society. Bro, how could you say that? It is very dramatic and exciting, yes, but it is not metaphysical at all. In fact, it is Realistic Fiction. 

As if Charlie Chaplin re-wrote the works of Kafka, and he was a Russian trans man, Anton Solomonik brings a funny, heartbreaking, and startlingly unique new voice to contemporary short fiction.

"Outrageously funny."—Paul Harding


Anton Solomonik is a writer and illustrator living in Brooklyn. He’s the co-host of the World Transsexual Forum, an open-mic series for trans writers.

Cat Fitzpatrick is the Editrix at LittlePuss Press and the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University—Newark. Her novel-in-rhyme, The Call-Out , won the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction. She has also published a collection of poems, Glamourpuss, and co-edited the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction & Fantasy from Transgender Writers, which won the 2018 ALA Stonewall Barbara Gittings Award for Literature. Her next book, The Dinner Party & Other Writings is due out from Seven Stories Press in 2026.