by Nick Kolakowski | Mar 23, 2022 | Noir
When the pandemic started, I spent a lot of time playing around with a software platform called GPT-3, which generates text based on whatever you input into it; newspapers such as The Guardian have experimented with using GPT-3 to produce articles, for example. I...
by Nick Kolakowski | Dec 30, 2021 | Noir
The bank robber John Dillinger died on July 22, 1934. Or maybe he didn’t. At the height of the Great Depression, Dillinger and his crew robbed at least a dozen banks across the Midwest, netting a small fortune (roughly $300,000, or around $5.7 million in 2019 dollars)...
by Nick Kolakowski | Dec 16, 2021 | Noir
Mention “Bonnie and Clyde,” and, for many people, the first thing that springs to mind is the Arthur Penn movie, in which Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway play an impossibly glamourous couple who rob banks, party hard, and die young. Just in case you’ve never seen it,...
by Nick Kolakowski | Oct 26, 2020 | Noir
We’re out in paperback, and on Kindle, Nook, Apple Books, and Google Books, although I’m always big on encouraging folks to buy indie. Here’s the summary (which also touches on the prequel, Boise Longpig Hunting Club): Three nights ago, Jake Halligan and his...
by Nick Kolakowski | Jun 13, 2020 | Noir
For the past few months, I’ve been working alongside co-editor Steve Weddle and publisher Jason Pinter (of Polis Books) on a very special project: “Lockdown,” an anthology of 20 suspense, noir, and horror stories set against the background of a (fictional) pandemic....
by Nick Kolakowski | Sep 11, 2018 | Noir
And what’s he doing on the cover of that magazine? Over at Fast Company, I have a long nonfiction essay about the Iraq War, modern propaganda, and how the traditional tools of government-funded “public diplomacy”—such as radio stations and glossy...
