Anyone who follows Rosanne Cash
on Twitter knows she's funny, candid and smart. "Must check celebrity health & beauty blogs to discern inability to sleep. Probably repressing inner Goddess or not eating enough seaweed," she Tweeted earlier this week, following later with, "Too much excess energy. I hate that. Wish I could REALLY relax. #ProbablyTooMuchInfoForYou." This week, Southern Californians showed they'd like more than 140 characters of Cash's writing at a time, please, sending her first book, "Composed," to debut on the nonfiction bestseller list at No. 6. In a story in Wednesday's L.A. Times, Randy Lewis
talks to Cash about her memoir.
With her autobiography "Composed," Cash saw an opportunity to sort through her life via the music that's always been at the heart of it. She was inspired to some extent by the work of 20th century food writer M.F.K. Fisher, which her editor at Viking had sent her way.
"That kind of cemented the deal for me," she said. "She wrote about her life by writing about food. And I thought, I could write about my life by writing about songs. I liked that peripheral way of approaching things."
Also debuting on the nonfiction bestseller list this week: Larry McMurtry's "Hollywood," "The Murder Room" by Mike Capuzzo and "Ill Fares the Land" by recently deceased scholar Tony Judt.
- Carolyn Kellogg
