Memoirs from Bob Odenkirk and Sarah Polley top our list of books to read this March

Plus: Age Of Cage traces Nicolas Cage’s eclectic filmography, and The Emissary author Yoko Tawada kicks off a delightfully strange dystopian trilogy

By Laura Adamczyk, Ines Bellina, Adam Morgan | February 21, 2022 | 12:00pm

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Memoirs from Bob Odenkirk and Sarah Polley top our list of books to read this March

Cover images: Run Towards The Danger (Penguin), Age Of Cage (Henry Holt), Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama (Random House), In The Margins (Europa Editions), Scattered All Over The Earth (New Directions) Graphic: Natalie Peeples

Every month, a deluge of new books comes flooding out from big publishers, indie houses, and self-publishing platforms. So every month, The A.V. Club narrows down the endless options to five of the books we’re most excited about.

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama by Bob Odenkirk

(March 1, Random House):Bob Odenkirk’s elegantly titled Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama takes readers on a hilarious tour of the comedian and actor’s career, from his time performing at Second City in Chicago (comedy), to writing for (comedy), to creating the sketch classic with David Cross (comedy), to landing a plum role on (drama), then its eventual spin-off, . Celebrity memoirs are a dime a dozen, but if there were one we’d put our money on as being well worth the time this year, it’s this one.

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