S-Town, short for shit-town, is a seven-part podcast hosted by Brian Reed and produced by the makers of This American Life and Serial. The podcast follows Reed’s interviews with a middle-aged man named John B. McLemore and other residents of Woodstock, Alabama. S-Town’s plot is a complex web of subplots featuring everything from a murder mystery to a treasure hunt. However, the ultimate subject of S-Town is the life and death of McLemore. S-Town was published without the cons