by Nick Kolakowski | Jan 5, 2022 | Pop Culture
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of serial killer literature. In the 1990s, such novels dominated the bestseller lists; you couldn’t walk into a bookstore without spying titles by Dean Koontz, Thomas Harris, Patricia Cornwell, and their contemporaries on the front...
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)...