Madelyn Dawson

Madelyn Dawson is InsideHook’s editorial fellow. She’s a culture writer based in Staten Island who has contributed to the Los Angeles Review of Books, Paste, SPIN, The Brooklyn Rail and INDUSTRY, covering music, books, pop culture, technology and lifestyle. Madelyn is a graduate of Yale University and in her free time she can be found emptying her wallet in a record store, reading on the express bus or sipping a Negroni. You can reach her at mdawson@insidehook.com.

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This Literary Retreat Is Reimagining Book-Based Travel

Mikey Friedman's PAGE BREAK is redefining the standard of literary-inspired travel, and he's just getting started

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Your Brain Might Not Be Full of Microplastics After All

Critics are raising questions about studies on microplastics in humans, but that doesn’t mean our current plastic crisis is any less dire

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Bandcamp: AI-Generated Music Not Welcome Here

While fake musicians flourish elsewhere, the platform is taking an aggressive stance against audio “generated wholly or in substantial part by AI”