Very few people know how weird it is to be at the center of a pop-culture phenomenon: "It" girls, online viral sensations, tousle-haired boy-band stars. Radio journalists are not often on that list. "It's like watching pop culture happen in front of you," said Sarah Koenig, creator of the podcast juggernaut Serial. "People were gathering around this thing and picking apart any part of it to grab onto and congregate around." Koenig said she had a hard time describing what it felt like to be at the center of something so suddenly popular - in part because she willfully ignored it. "I was a weird troll person the entire time. We made it in a basement, so I was in my pajamas for most of it," she...
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