BOOK

Rosanne Cash, Composed (Viking, $26.95). This is a remarkable piece of work, a making-of-an-artist memoir by a musician who is equally adept at writing prose. Composed is–all at once–funny and poetic and down to earth, and Cash also has a great many exceedingly shrewd things to say about the music business and its discontents. Don’t go looking for gossip, but if you want to learn about the inner and outer lives of one of our very best singer-songwriters, you won’t be even slightly disappointed (TT).