For fifteen years, creator Nate DiMeo has been recording the pioneering podcast, “The Memory Palace” in the guest room in his L.A. home. Each episode turns 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. A Peabody Award finalist, a former artist-in-residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nate brings his one-of-a-kind stories of the past to the Crawford in Pasadena to celebrate the launch of his collection, “The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past” with a dynamic evening of stories, archival images, animation, and conversation. This is the Los Angeles launch of the book, so stick around after the show to purchase a copy of the book at the onsite pop-up store from our partner Vroman’s Bookstore and get your copy signed by Nate.
ABOUT NATE DIMEO
For fifteen years, Nate DiMeo has written, produced, and hosted “The Memory Palace,” a podcast of short, narrative essays put to music that conjure lost moments and forgotten figures from America’s past or find strange, new magic in the familiar. The show has been a finalist for a Peabody award. Nate was the Artist in Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 2016/2017.
On November 19, 2024 Random House will release The Memory Palace, collecting beloved stories from the podcast along with new, narrative nonfiction essays, archival visual material, original illustrations, and memoir in a dynamic and original, kaleidoscopic exploration of the history of the United States and the intertwining of personal and historical memory.
He is the co-author of Pawnee: the Greatest Town in America and was a finalist for the 2012 Thurber Prize for American Humor. He spent a decade or so in public radio. You may have heard him back in the day on “All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition,” or “Marketplace.” He’s written for NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” and ABC’s “Astronaut Wives Club.” He lives in Los Angeles via Providence, Rhode Island. The AV Club once said that “The Memory Palace podcast is among the most potent pieces of audio being produced today; the show’s short tales are so emotionally concentrated that, upon listening, they bloom in the space between one’s ears, like a single drop of dye propagating through an entire glass of water. Nate DiMeo, the show’s sole creative force, often seems to be operating on a level wholly separate from that of other podcasts.”