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BA of the Week: Ghostwriter Manager Oriana Leckert

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Our BA of the Week this time around wrangles ghostwriters for a living! I didn’t even know that job existed. Cool!! Anyways, this is what Oriana said when I asked for a bio from her:

Oriana manages ghostwriters by day and writes the underground arts & culture blog Brooklyn Spaces by night. She is relentlessly happy and will probably correct your grammar.

Let’s See what she has to say about being a broke-ass:

Name: Oriana Leckert

Age: 33

Occupation: Matchmaker for ghostwriters; creatrix of Brooklyn Spaces

What neighborhood do you live in?: East Williamsburg

Best money saving tip: Buy as little as possible, and mostly secondhand things. Dumpstering food helps too.

What do you refuse to spend money on?: Bottled water. Even if that’s the only thing I want, I’ll still buy juice.

Most expensive thing you’ve ever bought: A new bike

How’d that feel?: Horrible – it got stolen a month later. But now I have a secondhand beater from Time’s Up, which is awesome and what I should have done in the first place.

Favorite cheap eat: Cooking split pea soup or buttermilk pancakes – super cheap, super easy

Favorite dive bar: Second Chance Saloon

Best deal you’ve ever gotten: Free flight to Vegas in exchange for sitting through a two-hour time-share presentation

Favorite free thing to do: There is so much free stuff to do in NYC in the summers – every single night there’s a movie or a concert or play in like every single park. I don’t get much sleep in the summers.

If you woke up a millionaire, what’s the first thing you’d buy?: An apartment with roof access

Despite not having money, do you still love your life?: Yes!!!

Do you own my book?: I don’t. Maybe you’ll give me a free copy?

Best hangover cure: Moderation? (I’m not much of a drinker.)

Are you a hipster?: Eh, probably.

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Stuart Schuffman, aka Broke-Ass Stuart, is a travel writer, poet, TV host, activist, and general shit-stirrer. His website BrokeAssStuart.com is one of the most influential arts & culture sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and his freelance writing has been featured in Lonely Planet, Conde Nast Traveler, The Bold Italic, Geek.com and too many other outlets to remember. His weekly column, Broke-Ass City, appears every other Thursday in the San Francisco Examiner. Stuart’s writing has been translated into four languages. In 2011 Stuart created and hosted the travel show Young, Broke, and Beautiful on IFC and in 2015 he ran for Mayor of San Francisco and got nearly 20k votes.

He's been called "an Underground legend": SF Chronicle, "an SF cult hero":SF Bay Guardian, and "the chief of cheap": Time Out New York.