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Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday And The Birth Of The American Genre Film Archive, $35If you’ve reached the age where you go on rants about how back in your day, when you wanted to watch an obscure movie you had to mail a money order to some shady PO Box to maybe get a package of bootleg DVD-Rs six to eight weeks later, the new book will be a potent nostalgia trip. Featuring a six-part oral history of the Alamo Drafthouse’s Weird Wednesday series—ground zero for deep-cut genre cinema in the 2000s—as well as essays on Weird Wednesday mainstays by those who were there, the book serves equally well as a primer on exploitation culture for young cinephiles who don’t know how easy they have it. [Katie Rife]