the memory palace

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Stories About The Memory Palace Audiobook Jan 02, 2025

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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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Episode 224: Two Postcards Dec 21, 2024

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Music

Berceuse by Felix Rosch.
Low Tide by Johnny Nash
Ultraviolet by James Heather

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Nate on Atlas Obscura Dec 07, 2024

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

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 DiMeo and Pablo Torre Find Out Nov 25, 2024

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

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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Sutro and the Tides Nov 07, 2024

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

Music

Two versions of Good Morning Melody by Lullatone.
Peter Maxwell Davies plays his own composition, Farewell to Stromness.
Dominique Dumont plays Gone for a Wander

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Episode 150: Late One Night Oct 17, 2024

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

This episode was originally released in October 2019.

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Episode 222: Ferminia Sarras Sep 19, 2024

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Music

Riverside by Ann Annie
Walking to Town by Lullatone
Alice Lake by North Americans
Gone for a Wander by Domenique Dumont

Notes

The definitive source on Ferminia Sarras (as far as definitive can be in her case) A Mine of Her Own: Women Prospectors in the American West, 1850-1950 by Sally Zanjani.

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Episode 221: Ken Allen Sep 05, 2024

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Pre-order The Memory Palace book now, pal. 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 and independent media, 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

Pure (Ride the World) by (the extraordinary) Brendan Eder Ensemble
Violette... from Philippe Sarde's score to Violette et Francois
Merry-go-Round and People on Sunday by Domenique Dumont
Dane by Nils Frahm
Two different versions of Debussy's Passepied, the piano one is performed by Seong-Jin Cho, the synth one by Isao Tomita
Love from Matthew Herbert
Memorial Park from Bernard Herrmann's score to Obsession.
Phantom Signals by Tvarvargen

Notes

There's plenty written about Ken Allen, but I particularly appreciated Jason Hribal's book Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance.

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Episode 220: The Zipper Aug 15, 2024

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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 and independent media, 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

Swiming by Explosions in the Sky
Walking Song by Kevin Volans and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble
I Walk on Guilded Splinters by Johnny Jenkins
Seduction by the Balanescu Quartet
Lunette by Les Baxter and Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman
Running Around by Buddy Ross
September by Giles Lamb

Notes

This episode was pieced together from a ton of little fragments but I wanted to steer folks to a couple of resources in particular: this excellent article from a few years back in the Toronto Star by Katie Daubs, and this documentary from filmmaker, Amy Nicholson, that primarily uses the Zipper as a way to talk about changes at Coney Island but has some great details from Harold Chance and his sons.

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Episode 219: Lost Jobs Jul 03, 2024

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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 and independent media, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com.

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