Scott Broker with Patrick Cottrell: The Disappointment
Queer writer Scott Broker discusses his surreal debut novel about a marriage unraveling on the Oregon coast, in conversation with DU professor Patrick Cottrell.
Date & Time at 6:00 PM MST
Location Tattered Cover Colfax Denver, US
Organizer Tattered Cover Book Store
Why we picked this
A debut novelist whose surreal Oregon coast setting becomes a way of examining how relationships come apart — paired with a University of Denver professor who knows the territory of experimental fiction.
Scott Broker’s debut novel The Disappointment follows a couple navigating personal losses during an Oregon coast vacation, where surreal circumstances begin threatening their marriage. It’s the kind of fiction that uses a destabilized setting to get at truths about intimacy and grief.
Broker, a queer writer, bookseller, and teacher, will be in conversation with Patrick Cottrell, a creative writing professor at the University of Denver whose own work pushes the boundaries of literary form.