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Nate DiMeo on shaking up the past in The Memory Palace
Yes, I'm trying to tell you a ripping yarn. Yes, I might be trying to rip your heart out and put it back together—or whatever artistic thing. But the overall intellectual project is always about trying to destabilize the past.
Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with podcaster Nate DiMeo about his book The Memory Palace, based on the podcast by the same name. In The Memory Palace, history comes in vignettes, as short stories, as jewels carefully mined from a variety of sources. Nathan and Nate talked about history as story, how Nate realized the thing that made him the best guy to sit next to at the bar was a great idea for a podcast, and the making of The Memory Palace's star-studded audiobook.
The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past
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.
Books mentioned in this episode:
- Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
- The Wager by David Grann
- The Strawberry Statement by James Simon Kunen
Author photo: Emily Berl
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