Friday, June 2, 9\u201311:30 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Book launch: Shaping the Fractured Self: Poetry of chronic illness and pain<\/em>: Heather Taylor Johnson, Fiona Wright, Quinn Eades<\/p>\n Readings:<\/p>\n – Ariel Gore (The End of Eve; We Were Witches) Saturday 9\u201311:30 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Address: First Lady of Iceland, Eliza Reid<\/p>\n Readings:<\/p>\n – Gretel Ehrlich (This Cold Heaven. Seven Seasons in Greenland) <\/p>\n NonfictioNOW off-venue events at the Nordic House are open to the public and free of charge. For further information about the conference and to register, go to www.nonfictionow.org<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tickets to the keynote addresses on 2 and 4 June by Gretel Ehrlich, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Aisha Sabatini Sloan and Wayne Koestenbaum\u2014three of whom will take part in the authors\u2019 evenings at the Nordic House\u2014are available at www.harpa.is<\/a> (Tickets for one keynote: ISK 1,000. All four keynotes: ISK 3,000).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n NonfictioNOW<\/strong>, held at the University of Iceland and Harpa Concert and Conference Center, June1-4, 2017, is a biennial gathering of nonfiction writers, teachers, readers and students, highlighting the myriad forms of nonfiction. Founded in the US in 2005, this is the first time that the conference takes place in Europe.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NonfictioNOW 2017 \u2013 Off-Venue: Authors\u2019 Evenings Friday, June 2, 9\u201311:30 pm Book launch: Shaping the Fractured Self: Poetry of chronic illness and pain: Heather Taylor Johnson, Fiona Wright, Quinn Eades Readings: – Ariel Gore (The End of Eve; We Were Witches) – El\u00edsabet J\u00f6kulsd\u00f3ttir (The Locksmith\u2019s Advice; Love is a Mess of Nerves: No Dancing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10433,"template":"","event-categories":[8],"class_list":["post-10483","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-literature","has-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/10483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=10483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– El\u00edsabet J\u00f6kulsd\u00f3ttir (The Locksmith\u2019s Advice; Love is a Mess of Nerves: No Dancing at Ufsaklettur)
\n– Tim Tomlinson (Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse; Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire)
\n– Vilborg Dav\u00ed\u00f0sd\u00f3ttir (On Love Dragons and Dying)
\n– Ger\u00f0ur Kristn\u00fd (Dr\u00e1pa)
\n– Wayne Koestenbaum (My 1980s & Other Essays; The Pink Trance Notebooks)
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\n– Sigur\u00f0ur P\u00e1lsson (A Notebook of Memory)
\n– Brenda Miller (An Earlier Life)
\n– J\u00f3n Gnarr (The Outlaw)
\n– A. Kendra Greene (Vagrants and Uncommon Visitors; Anatomy of a Museum)
\n– Alda Sigmundsd\u00f3ttir (The Little Book of Tourists in Iceland)
\n– Aisha Sabatini Sloan (Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit)<\/p>\n