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Flashing back a decade to the recording of A Song of Myself Nate did in a hotel room in Phoenix ahead of the 2016 Presidential election. 

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This episode was originally produced in July of 2015. 

Music

 

* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.

* The opening loop is from Mr. Knight from Coltrane Plays the Blues, which you should own. 

* The violin piece is Occam II for Violin, a piece by Silvia Tarozzi, played by Pauline Oliveros.

* Next up is Mikuro's Blues from the mighty David S. Ware' mighty Go See the World.

* The amazing orchestral pieces is Triumph by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Carlos Nino from Fill the Heart- Shaped Cup 

* Finally, there's 13 Ghosts II by Nine Inch Nails from Ghosts I-IV

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This is a special episode commissioned by Aspen Ideas: Health and originally performed at the 2026 festival in Aspen, Colorado. 

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Music

• The Barr Brothers play Static Orphans

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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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Music

• The Barr Brothers play Static Orphans
• Resavoir plays Facets
• We hear Le mort de l'enfant from Hikaru Hayashi's score to The Naked Island.
• South Seas by David Pike
• Trust in Me from Sould Flutes
• Flowering Jasmine from Gidon Kremer
• Tesko Mi Je Zabrovit Tebe from Branko Mataja. 

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Music

• Two (Duvet and Correspondences) from Laurie Torres' gorgeous album, Après coup.

Notes

• I implore you to get lost in the interactive map at livingnewdeal.org. And then go out in the woods.

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Music

• The Skydiver from the great Lalo Schiffrin's score to the quite poor, The Mask of Sheba.
• Charlie Megira plays The Girl Who was Frightened of Ashtrays
• Ellen's Image from the great Lalo Schiffrin's score to the quite excellent, The Fox.
• What if... from Keegan Dewitt's score to the quite charming, Heart Beats Loud.

Notes

• There was a very good article in Cabinet Magazine by Christopher Turner about the Switzer Brothers that includes excerpts from an unpublished autobiography from Bob. 
• I also really enjoyed this one from Liz Stinson about the science and art of Day Glo. 

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You can hear Rollercoaster and more of Hrishi's music at Hrishikesh.co. Pre-order his new album wherever you do that sort of thing!

Music

• Halcyon and Photosynteses and Embryo by H. Takehashi
• Intro by Library Tapes
• The Florist Wears Knee Breeches by M. Sage

Notes

• I found Andrew Isenberg's book, The Destruction of the Bison, An Environmental History, completely fascinating.
• If you want to do a deep dive on Madison Grant, I'd recommend Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant by John Peter Spiro.
• If you want to do a deep dive on the Catalina Buffalo, this site is a fun place to start.

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Music

• Drywall from Johann Johannson's score to Sicario.
• Castle Song by Green-House
• Tea by Resevoir
• La Valse du Progres by Delphine Dora
• Arrival by Domenique Dumont
• Sarah in Bath from Kryzystof Komeda's score to Fearless Vampire Killers
• Thread of Light by Golden Retriever
• In Some Spirit World by Geotic

Notes

• This one was pulled together with tiny threads of information, much provided by the NCRA's website itself. 
• You can find links to three fascinating (really!) studies on the brains of transcribers here, here, & here. 

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This episode originally dropped in 2018.

• We start with Facing the Obstacles, from Robert Simonson's score to The Final Member.
• Nice Breeze Isn't It? by Simon Rackham
• The Things Left Unsaid, by Caleb Burhans.
• View from a Balcony by Isorinne.
• 1979 by Deru.
• The Julianna Barwick remix of This Will Destroy You's The Puritan.

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Music

• Marisa Anderson plays He is Without His Guns
• Bing & Ruth play Broad Channel (Solo Piano)
• Greg Haines plays Peter's Advice

Notes

• You can listen to the full recording here. 

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Music

• Unseen Forces by Justin Walter
• Peperomia Seedling by Green-House
• Ebb Tide by Houston & Dorsey
• Little Miss Echo by Raymond Scott
• Stellify by Francesco Albanese
• Chain Home by Rogerson and Eno
• Luna by Digitonal
• Caroline Shaw plays The Orangery from Plan & Elevation

Notes

The place to start with all of this is here. It'll lead you out to the Bishop Museum's work, the lovely documentary produced by Hawai'ian Public Television, everywhere where you'd want to go. 

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With Nate surprisingly sidelined, his friends and fellow Radiotopians at This Day save (This) day. 

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Starting off the year with a new tradition: the first annual Public Domain Theater, in which Nate reads an important work of American literature that entered the public domain on January 1st of a given year. First up, the first Nancy Drew mystery, The Secret of the Old Clock. 

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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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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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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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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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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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Music

• On-ness by Tom Rogerson and Eno.
• Etude by Joep Beving
• Ebb Tide by Houston & Dorsey

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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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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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While Nate takes a little summer break, he reads you two poems. 

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Music

• Joy, by Jeffrey Cantu-Ledesma
• The Cradle by Frederico Albanese

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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