Ten Favorite Albums Inspired by Books

(alphabetically by artist)

Invisible Cities: An Opera by Christopher Cerrone (from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino)
The Trackless Woods by Iris DeMent (from the poems of Anna Akhmatova, mostly in A Treasury of Russian Verse)
1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) by Eurythmics (from Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell)
The Lover Speaks by The Lover Speaks (from A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes)
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel (from The Diary of Anne Frank)
Haunted by Poe (from House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski)
Lay-by Lullaby by Janek Schaefer (from Crash by J.G. Ballard)
There’s a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight by David Sylvian (from Kindertotenwald by Franz Wright)
Jeg vil hjem til menneskene by Susanna Wallumrød (from the poems of Gunvor Hofmo, many in I want to go home to the humans)
Visions of Dune by Z (from Dune by Frank Herbert)

— February 9, 2021