Lori Majewski

She is the author (with Jonathan Bernstein) of Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs that Defined the 1980s[1].

She credits the band for her career in writing, claiming, "in the mid-'80s I decided I wanted to become a journalist so I could meet them.

Her first paid job as a magazine staff writer came at YM, a publication targeted at teen girls.

[12] In 2014, Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein wrote Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs that Defined the 1980s, with a foreword by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran and an afterword by Moby.

Majewski and Bernstein hatched the idea for Mad World while writing for Spin during the 1990s heyday of grunge, where they discovered their mutual love for new wave music.