by Nick Kolakowski | Feb 1, 2022 | Pop Culture
So I decided to kill someone with a drone. In fiction, I mean. It was a crucial moment in the writing of my novel “Love & Bullets.” One of the protagonists, an Elvis-loving assassin with a penchant for fast food and navel-gazing, had to wipe out a...
by Nick Kolakowski | Jan 9, 2022 | Pop Culture
The speculative-fiction writer Philip K. Dick used amphetamines and other stimulants to transform himself into a 24/7 writing machine. Powered by chemicals, he churned out 28 novels and more than 132 short stories (many of which used drugs as subject matter, including...
