Sam van Zweden

For a long time, I felt like the books I consumed needed to be worthy. Seeking pleasure instead has reminded me why I fell in love with words in the first place.

To examine one’s mental health in literature is to do the difficult work of overcoming shame and transforming the ineffable into words. Two new releases break form to share personal stories that hold room for ambiguities of the mind.

These interrupted years have made time stand still, extend, repeat. Through deliberate attention to music and the rhythms of nature, I’m learning to live within this suspended moment.

Hysteria, Song of the Crocodile, Honeybee, Everything In Its Right Place, Dark Wave, Late Sonata

A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing; Living on Stolen Land; Metal Fish, Falling Snow; After Australia; Money for Something; Hazelwood 

A Constant Hum, The White Girl, Dry Milk