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“One doesn’t often find the words imagination and history in the same sentence. Nate DiMeo has forever woven them together. The Memory Palace wants you to linger, to stay awhile, and find a deeper meaning both in the stories of the past and perhaps in your own life as well.”—Ken Burns
The Memory Palace is a collection of crystalline historical tales that read like luminous short fiction and, like Nate DiMeo’s acclaimed podcast of the same name, conjure lost moments and forgotten figures who are calling out across time to be remembered.
Space capsules filled with fruit flies and future senators. A socialite scientist who gives up her glamorous life to follow love and the elusive prairie chicken. A boy genius on a path to change the world who gets lost in the theoretical possibilities of streetcar transfers. An enslaved man who steals a boat and charts a course that leads him to freedom, war, and Congress. A farmer’s wife who puts down her butter churn, picks up the butter, and becomes an international art star. An amusement park glowing at the water’s edge when electric lights are a brand-new thing. This cabinet of curiosities teems with wonder.
For fifteen years, Nate DiMeo has turned to the past to make sense of the way we live today, finding beauty and meaning in history’s dustier corners, holding things up to the light and weaving facts, keen insight, wit, and poignant observation into unforgettable tales. With new stories and treasured favorites from the beloved podcast, enchantment awaits you.
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Creators
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Nate DiMeoAuthor
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Nate DiMeoNarrator
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Jad AbumradNarrator
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Daniel AlarcónNarrator
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Betsy BrandtNarrator
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Carrie CoonNarrator
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Hrishikesh HirwayNarrator
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Dominic HoffmanNarrator
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Rebecca LowmanNarrator
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Roman MarsNarrator
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Robin MilesNarrator
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Ryan ReynoldsNarrator
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Kai RyssdalNarrator
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Lili TaylorNarrator
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Full CastNarrator
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Publisher
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Release date
November 19, 2024 -
Formats
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593912645
- File size: 250353 KB
- Duration: 08:41:33
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Channeling the author's trademark enthusiasm, humor, and curiosity, a host of big-name actors and voice talents such as Ryan Reynolds and Golden Voice Robin Miles narrate selections from Nate DiMeo's singular and popular podcast. DiMeo's stock-in-trade includes Plymouth Rock, the nickel candy bar, and a telescope that could see the canals on Mars as he finds the beauty and grace in a circus of natural oddities, Americana, and other lost historic nuggets. Better yet, with a voice of reflection and deep personal connection the author saves the final quarter of the book for himself, taking a deep dive into his family history and focusing on his grandparents, who owned a vaudeville-style nightclub in the 1930-40s. DiMeo's stories and tone are full of passion and wonder--the way history should be told. B.P. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine
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