the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

From award-winning public radio producer, Nate DiMeo, comes The Memory Palace. Short, surprising stories of the past, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hysterical, always super-great. For history buffs, fans of public radio shows like This American Life,

  • 15 minutes 48 seconds
    Episode 230: Helen Hulick Takes the Stand

    Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.

    During mid-April, 2025, I'm doing a southern book tour, with stops in San Antonio, Houston, Gainesville, Montgomery, New Orleans, and Oxford. Find out more at www.thememorypalace.us/events.

    The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com

    Music

    • Hallway Rug and a bit of Watering Plants by Omni Gardens
    • Dripping Icicles from Lalo Schiffrin's great score to The Fox.
    • Girl Talk by the Howard Roberts Quartet
    • Jules et Therese from the score to Jules et Jim
    • Franz Waxman's main title theme to Woman of the Year
    • Your Love from the legend, Frankie Knuckles
    • Then we go back and forth between Joe Morello's Timeless and Lara Downes playing Leonard Bernstein's Big Stuff.
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    17 April 2025, 7:01 am
  • 15 minutes 56 seconds
    Episode 229: Teammates

    Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.

    During mid-April, 2025, I'm doing a southern book tour, with stops in San Antonio, Houston, Gainesville, Montgomery, New Orleans, and Oxford. Find out more at www.thememorypalace.us/events.

    The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com

    Music

    • La Copla from Atahualpa Yupanqui
    • Yes, Brick by Brick and Waende by Caeys
    • Space in Between by Federico Albanese
    • Kieke by Shida Shihabi


    Notes

    • My favorite work on Mays is James Hirsch's glorious biography, Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend. I also recommend John Klima's Willie's Boys, about the Black Baron's 1948 season.
    • If you're looking to get more context for the city during those years, I'd recommend Diane McWhorter's history, Carry Me Home. 


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    3 April 2025, 7:01 am
  • 12 minutes 18 seconds
    Episode 228: Free Time

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    The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com

    Music

    • Two from Lambert: Fremd and The Open
    • Plantasia from Mort Garson's amazing, ridiculous album of the same name.
    • Two from Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans' score to Christine: Paranoia and Newsroom. 


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    20 March 2025, 4:00 pm
  • 13 minutes 29 seconds
    Episode 227: A Brief Note Written After Learning the National Parks Service Removed the word Transgender from Stonewall's Webpage

    Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.

    The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com

    Music

    • Pockets of Light by Ludomyr Melnyk
    • All in Circles and Janvie by Shida Shahabi
    • Between Trees by Akria Kosemura

    Notes

    • There are a million things to read about Stonewall, but the thing that I feel like deepened my understanding enough was The New York Public Library's The Stonewall Reader. Particularly the audiobook. Couldn't recommend it enough.


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    11 March 2025, 8:40 pm
  • 21 minutes 42 seconds
    Episode 176: The Air and the Sea and the Land

    Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.

    The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com

    Order Eliza McGraw's wonderful new book, Astride: Women, Horses and a Partnership that Changed America. 


    This episode originally aired in February of 2021. 


    Music

    • Unsayable by Brambles.
    • Kola - Lighthouse Version by amiina
    • A Nearer Sun by the Westerlies
    • Duet, a Steve Reich composition, performed by Daniel Hope.
    • Reading a Wave by Arp
    • April by Kanazu Tomoyuki
    • Latent Sonata by Brian McBride

    Notes

     


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    24 February 2025, 6:21 pm
  • 11 minutes 59 seconds
    Episode 226: A Wild One

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    The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com

    Order Eliza McGraw's wonderful new book, Astride: Women, Horses and a Partnership that Changed America. 

    Music

    • Hallogallo from Neu!, basically one of the best songs there is. 

    Notes

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    7 February 2025, 1:11 am
  • 23 minutes 40 seconds
    Episode 225: Emma and the Trail

    Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.

    The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com


    Music

    • Sincerely Yours by LLLL
    • Across the Other Side by Infinite Scale
    • Sunset by Resavoir
    • Mammoth by Golden Brown
    • Unassigned by Vernon Spring
    • Swimming by Explosions in the Sky
    • Pure (Ride the World) by The Brendan Eder Ensemble
    • Le Tunnel by Sylvain Chauveau
    • Floating Away by Lullatone

    Notes

    • There's a ton written about Emma Rowena Gatewood but so much of it, including this story, owes a huge debt to Ben Montgomery's book, Grandma Gatewood's Walk, which excavated the story of her life with her husband. Besides that, it is wonderfully written. Totally recommend it. 
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    17 January 2025, 6:16 pm
  • 24 minutes 24 seconds
    Stories About The Memory Palace Audiobook

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    Buy the audiobook wherever you get audiobooks (like libro.fm!)

    The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com


    Audio excerpted courtesy of Random House Audio from THE MEMORY PALACE by Nate DiMeo, read by a full cast. Excerpts read by Ryan Reynolds and Betsy Brandt, © 2024 Nate DiMeo, ℗ 2024 Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved.


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    2 January 2025, 8:00 am
  • 16 minutes 16 seconds
    Episode 224: Two Postcards

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    The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com

    Music

    • Berceuse by Felix Rosch.
    • Low Tide by Johnny Nash
    • Ultraviolet by James Heather
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    21 December 2024, 1:57 am
  • 23 minutes 7 seconds
    Nate on Atlas Obscura

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    The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com

    This is a special bonus episode of the podcast sharing a particularly good interview I did with the folks at Atlas Obscura. 

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    7 December 2024, 4:21 am
  • 47 minutes 17 seconds
    Nate DiMeo and Pablo Torre Find Out

    Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House.

    The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com

    This is a special bonus episode of the podcast sharing with you my extremely fun appearance on the wonderful podcast, Pablo Torre Finds Out. You can watch it on Youtube, including the dynamite animation from my friend, Arthur Jones, here. 

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    25 November 2024, 6:49 pm
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