Fans of the new S-Town podcast may have gotten a certain song stuck in their heads. At the end of every episode, “A Rose for Emily” by The Zombies plays. Beneath its bouncing piano and cheery ...

After the Blue Hour, like “A Rose for Emily,” has a mystery at its core.The young protagonist, a 24-year-old rising literary talent named, fittingly, John Rechy, receives a strange invitation ...