The Quiet Kid, The Introvert: Sharon Van Etten and Her Emotionally Resonant Songs

Sharon Van Etten tells me she feels “blessed” to have a career; she’s “incredibly lucky” by her reckoning. And the last year, the last two years even, provided “more pinch yourself moments” than Van Etten could have ever dreamed of, growing up in New Jersey, a record-obsessed, introverted diarist.

“It’s funny”, she says, not laughing, “I moved to New Yor…