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Nate DiMeo

the memory palace

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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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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. 

Music

 • Berceuse by Felix Rosch.

 • Low Tide by Johnny Nash

 • Ultraviolet by James Heather

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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. 

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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Stories About The Memory Palace Audiobook

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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

 • 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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Episode 225: Emma and the Trail

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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

 • There is a lot written about Bessie, including some wonderful children's books. The best thing I read about her was in Ann Farrar (a journalist and biker herself)'s book 
Hear Me Roar: Women, Motorcycles, and the Rapture of the Road. • 

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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. 

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

 • The oral history mentioned in this episode is available through the 
Smithsonian Instittion’’s archives. • 

 

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Episode 176: The Air and the Sea and the Land

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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

 • 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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Episode 227: A Brief Note Written After Learning the National Parks Service Removed the word Transgender from Stonewall'

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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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Episode 228: Free Time

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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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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

 • 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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Episode 230: Helen Hulick Takes the Stand

Episode 8 of the 2015 Summer Season

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music

* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.

* First up (and returning at the end) is Sandra's Theme, from Heather McIntosh's fantastic score to Compliance, a very good, very disturbing movie. 

* We hit Frank Glazer leading Charles Ives' Largo for Clarinet, Violin and Piano a couple of times, framing...

* Runaway from Olafur Arnalds. 

 

Notes:

*The key to researching this episode turned out to be an article in The Journal of Southern History from 2001 by Court Carnay called, "The Contested Image of Nathan Bedford Forrest.". 

* Also particularly useful was Nathan Bedford Forrest: a Biography, by Jack Hurst. 

* As was Lynching in America: A History in Documents, compiled by Christopher Waldrep.

* Much of my information about the contents of the ceremony and speeches was gathered from this, the digitized journal and scrapbook of Charles Henry Niehaus, the sculptor of the monument. It's an extraordinary resource. 

* And let us all read Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases, by Ida B. Wells. And let's put her on the $10 while we're at it.

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Episode 73 (Notes on an Imagined Plaque to be Added to the Statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Upon Hearing that t

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