the memory palace

By Nate DiMeo

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December 06, 2025Episode 239: Blank Pages
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Music
The Lady With the Golden Stockings from the Sun Ra Arkestra
The Sage from the Chico Hamilton Quintet
Falling in Love with a New York Pigeon by Birb
Bocherini's fourth quintet as performed by the Ensemble of St. Martin of the Fields
From a Dream by Oregon
Jaybird from the great Charlie Parr
Pool of Love by Les Baxter
And House Tuner Theme from Will Bates' gorgeous score to The Sound of Silence.

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November 26, 2025 From The Memory Palace Audiobook: Fine New England Granite
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Audio excerpted courtesy of Random House Audio from THE MEMORY PALACE by Nate DiMeo, read by a full cast. Excerpt read by Nate DiMeo, © 2024 Nate DiMeo, ℗ 2024 Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved.
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November 06, 2025Episode 238: The Crypt of Thornwell Jacobs
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Music
Kara-Lis Coverdale's A480
Palimpsest from Will Bate's score to The Sound of Silence
Harriett Smith and Robert Martin Meet in the Rain from Isobel Waller Bridge's score to Emma.
The Play from Dan Romer's score to (the terrific) Station Eleven.
Cutting Branches from a Temporary Shelter from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
Sustainable from H. Takahashi.
Notes
There's a particularly good article by Colin Dickey about Jacobs and The Crypt in American Scholar.
You can read all 1100 pages of Jacobs' autobiography here, if you haven't already.
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October 23, 2025 A Teach-In for History
On Sunday, October 26th, 2025, Nate DiMeo of this here show, The Memory Palace, and his friends and colleagues at his fellow Radiotopia show, This Day, will be holding a good, old-fashioned teach-in in defense of history and museums currently targeted by the Trump Administration. Readings and lectures from sun-up to sundown on the National Mall in Washington D.C.
Learn more here.

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16min
October 02, 2025Episode 237: Vigil
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Music
On-ness by Tom Rogerson and Eno.
Etude by Joep Beving
Ebb Tide by Houston & Dorsey
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September 19, 2025Episode 133: Antidisestablishmentarianism
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This episode was originally released in October of 2018.
Music
We start with the very English, Voluntary No. 4 in b-flat Minor, by Margaret Phillips.
Hear Nero’s Nocturne from Chilly Gonzales.
Some of The Stars vs. Creatures by Colleen.
Abide with Me from the Thelonious Monk Septet off his Monk’s Music album.
Walzer fur Robert by Anne Muller off of Erased Tapes Volume 5.
Evening at Eight by Keith Kenniff.
and Berceuse by Alexandra Streliski.
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September 07, 2025Episode 236: The Times
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Music
A couple by C. Diab: Tiny Umbrellas and Crypsis
The beginning of Cats Cradle (Iris) by Hannah Epperson
Dawning and Wind by Shida Shihabi
A couple from Ceeys: Neighbour II and Union
Notes
I really enjoyed reading both Lew Irwin's Deadly Times: the 1910 Bombing of the L.A. Times and America's Forgotten Decade of Terror, and Bread and Hyacinths: the Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles, by Lionel Rolfe
As an, at this point, long-time Angeleno, I highly recommend visiting the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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August 21, 2025 Summer Reading: Two Transcendent Poems About Public Transportation
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While Nate takes a little summer break, he reads you two poems.
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August 07, 2025Episode 235: The Girls, their Teachers, their Parents
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Music
Joy, by Jeffrey Cantu-Ledesma
The Cradle by Frederico Albanese
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July 26, 2025Episode 234: Looking for Parking, Late Winter, 1996
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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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