THURSDAY, december 19, 2024
Doors 6:00pm, Show 7:00pm
Moderated by Suzy DeYoung and Lee Shull
Tickets: $40 General Admission, $55 Preferred Seating and “skip the line” book signing
Brian Reed is the host and co-creator of the groundbreaking podcast S-Town, and co-host and co-creator of the new hit podcast from Serial Productions and the New York Times, The Trojan Horse Affair. Reed was also a longtime producer at the public radio show and podcast This American Life, where he oversaw the show for years as its senior producer alongside host Ira Glass. He currently runs his own production company with fellow This American Life veteran Robyn Semien. His new project, a bi-weekly series titled Question Everything (September 2024), is an exploration of journalism itself, starting with his own work and the experience of being questioned as a journalist.
The seminal series S-Town won widespread critical praise and shattered audience records with more than 100 million downloads. Reed spent 3 years reporting and writing S-Town, which began when a man named John B. McLemore asked Reed to investigate an alleged murder in his small Alabama town. S-Town won a Peabody Award for being a “pioneering classic of the form”, is being developed into a feature film by director Tom McCarthy and Participant Media, and received broad acclaim for elevating audio storytelling into the realm of great literature. As Rebecca Mead wrote in The New Yorker, “Among the half-million products released in podcasting’s brief history, it is “S-Town”…that seems most likely to endure as a work of art.”
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