Author Event: Nate Dimeo, creator of The Memory Palace podcast

Join author and host of the award-winning podcast, The Memory Palace, Nate Dimeo to celebrate his recent book, Memory Palace: True Stories of the Past. Nate will read some stories from the book, take questions and sign books!

Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event. Preorder your copy with us!

While the event is free, RSVPs are required. Thank you for understanding!

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MEMORY PALACE: TRUE STORIES OF THE PAST

Incredible true stories reveal strange new magic in American history in this wondrous first book from the creator of the award-winning podcast The Memory Palace.

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 assembled alongside dynamic illustrations and archival photographs for the first time, enchantment awaits you.

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For fifteen years, Nate DiMeo’s pioneering podcast, The Memory Palace, 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. The show has made its way into The Library of Congress, as a member of its first class of podcasts tapped for preservation, and the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where Nate was the museum’s artist in residence. He has performed stories from the podcast in cities all over the United States as well as Canada, England, Ireland, and at a rock festival in Tasmania. His new book from Random House, The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past, collects beloved stories from the show, new stories, memoir, found photographs and illustrations.

He has reported stories for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and All Things Consider and American Public Media’s Marketplace, as well as numerous other public radio programs. He is the co-author of Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America, for which he was a finalist for the Thurber Prize in American Humor. He has written for NBC’s Parks and Recreation and the ABC miniseries, The Astronaut Wives’ Club. He lives in Los Angeles, by way of Providence, Rhode Island.

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