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Nate DiMeo

the memory palace

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 a particularly good interview I did with the folks at Atlas Obscura. 

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Nate on Atlas Obscura

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. 

Music

 • Berceuse by Felix Rosch.

 • Low Tide by Johnny Nash

 • Ultraviolet by James Heather

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Episode 224: Two Postcards

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

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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Stories About The Memory Palace Audiobook

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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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

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

 • 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

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'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

 • 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.

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

This is the very first episode of The Memory Palace. Done a gajillion years ago to test out a theory about radio storytelling. You do not have to start here. In fact, maybe you shouldn't. It's a little grim. The rest are not. 

Nate

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