Kevin Bronson on September 2nd, 2015

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Musician and author Kristin Hersh, the co-founder of influential rockers Throwing Muses who has gone on to an acclaimed career as a solo artist and writer, will make two appearances in Los Angeles on Nov. 1 in support of her new book, “Don’t Suck, Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt.”

The book, to be published Oct. 1 by the University of Texas Press, is an account of her friendship with the revered songwriter Chestnutt, a quadriplegic able to play only simple chords on his guitar. Before his death in 2009, Hersh toured with Chesnutt, and they bonded over a love of songwriting and mutual struggles with mental health. The book is described as “more memoir than biography,” with Hersh dissecting Chesnutt’s pain, creativity and difficulties and also revealing him to be “wickedly funny and painfully perceptive.”

Hersh do a signing at Book Soup in West Hollywood at 4 p.m. Nov. 1, followed that evening by a show at the Echo.

Hersh’s last solo album was 2010’s “Crooked,” and the following year she released the fourth EP by her heavy-rock band 50 Foot Wave, titled “With Love From the Men’s Room.” She published her own memoir “Rat Girl” in 2010 to wide acclaim.