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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. 

Notes

 • Go to 
adoptastation.org • and pitch in.

 • Listen to the incredible documentaries by Lloyd Newman, LeAlan Jones, and David Isay, at David's (Corporation for Public Broadcasting funded) 
Storycorps.org • 

Music

 • Herbert's Story from Mark Orton's score to Nebraska.

 • Kyu from Sylvain Chaveau

 • Smygkatt by Shida Shahabi

 • Roedelius plays Rolling

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Episode 234: Looking for Parking, Late Winter, 1996

Here’s a preview from a new podcast, Charlie’s Place. 

How did a Black man in the 1940s Jim Crow South open a club where Black and white people danced together? Charlie’s Place was revolutionary, and that meant it was dangerous. Host Rhym Guissé explores the unbelievable true story of Charlie Fitzgerald, a mysterious Black businessman whose nightclub became an unlikely site of integration in Myrtle Beach. Charlie broke down racial barriers through the power of music and dance, hosting some of the greatest musicians of our time: Little Richard, Count Basie, Ray Charles, Duke Ellington, and many more. But who was Charlie? How did he rise to power? And what price did he pay for achieving the impossible—an integrated club in the Jim Crow South? This is a story of joy and passion that erupted into violence and changed a community forever. Listen to Charlie’s Place wherever you get your podcasts. Binge the entire season early and ad-free by subscribing to Pushkin+. Sign up on the Charlie's Place show page on Apple Podcasts or at pushkin.fm/plus.

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Introducing Charlie’s Place: A Cultural Haven That Brought People Together Through Music

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

 • Jobs, Winter Memory, and Slow Flood by Dark Dark Dark

 • Carla et Roger aux sports l'hiver from the score to Le bel age by Georges Delareau

 • Mt Baker by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

 • All Creatures will Drink Joy by American Cream Band

 • Every High (Piano Solo) by Kyson

 • Vals Efter Lasse I Lyby by Lofoten Cello Duo

Notes

 • You can read 
The President's Daughter here • . 

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Episode 233: Nan + Warren

.The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.

This episode was originally released in 2016 in the days after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It is re-released every year on the anniversary of the incident.

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A White Horse

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.

On June 13th, 2025, I'll do a special, one-night-only live show at the Tribeca Audio Festival in New York City, joined by two of the audiobook's readers: Carrie Coon and Lili Taylor! 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

 • Pale by Akira Koresuma

 • The Things Left Unsaid by Caleb Burhans

 • VIII. Juliet by Matthew Bourne

 • Dream House III: After Dust from Mary Ellen Child's beautiful album, Ethel.

 • Here I Am, Two Warships, by Spirituals

Notes

 • You can listen to the whole, original recording 
here • , and an enhanced, speed corrected version, 
here • . 

 • One of the best places to learn about Herb's life is this 
documentary • . 

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Episode 232: Oh, Herbert Morrison

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-May, 2025, I'm doing a Midwestern book tour, with stops in Minneapolis, Cincinatti, Indianapolis, and Chicago. 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

 • That Moment by Antonymes

 • Nocturne by Sololi

 • Watching it Unfold by Lawrence English

Notes

 • You can access the self-produced history of the Sophie Bibb Chapter of the UDC here. 

 • The 
Alabama Encyclopedia site • does a nice job with some of this stuff. 

 • You might want to check out Caroline Janney's book, Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Mermorial Associations and the Lost Cause. 

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Episode 231: On Dexter Avenue

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

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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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.

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

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

A special episode of the Memory Palace commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to coincide with the opening of Rockefeller-Worsham Dressing Room in Gallery 742 of The American Wing and with Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age, an exhibition open now through May 1st, 2016. 

This piece is ideally consumed on site, in Gallery 742 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Written and Produced by Nate DiMeo of [The Memory Palace.](thememorypalace.us)

Musical score by Jimmy LaValle of The Album Leaf.

Executive Producer, Limor Tomer, General Manager of Concerts & Lectures, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Episode (M): Gallery 742

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