How exactly does Kickstarter work? What is it like to help writers and publishers reach out to their audiences to bring their dreams to life? What are the benefits of crowdfunding?

Join Tiffany Babb as she speaks to Kickstarter's head of publishing Oriana Leckert about working at Kickstarter, how her role has changed over the years, and how she helps creators bring their projects to the world.

Find out more about Oriana's work at:

https://www.oriana-leckert.com/

https://www.kickstarter.com/publishing

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Intro/Outro Music: Geoff Harvey's "Meet Me at the Plaza"

What exactly does a restaurant critic do all day? What's the process of setting up a review? What's the hardest part of being a food critic? How has the gig changed over the years?

Join Tiffany Babb as she speaks to Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Bill Addison about his decades of work writing about restaurants and food, why he visits a restaurant three times before he reviews it, and the physical toll of writing about food.

Find out more about Bills's work at:

https://www.latimes.com/people/bill-addison

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Intro/Outro Music: Geoff Harvey's "Meet Me at the Plaza"

Join Tiffany Babb as she speaks to animator and cartoonist Ben Wickey about working in animation, his journey to becoming an artist, and his graphic novel about the Salem Witch Trails, More Weight. If you have any interest in the hands-on, nitty gritty world of making stop motion animation or the history of Salem and how it's story reverberates in American culture today, this is the episode for you.

Find out more about Ben's work at:

https://www.instagram.com/ben_wickey/

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Intro/Outro Music: Geoff Harvey's "Meet Me at the Plaza"