'The Jinx': Served just how we like it these days -- in little pieces

Months ago -- seemingly all at once and on the most conspicuously literate end of the pop-culture spectrum -- people became obsessed with a podcast called "Serial," in which a reporter, Sarah Koenig, meticulously and even obsessively combed through the details of a Baltimore high school student's murder in 1999, hoping to discover if the man convicted of the crime really did commit it.