Name: "The Memory Palace" Live
Start: 2024-12-06T19:00:00-05:00
Location: WBUR CitySpace

Join us for a live taping of “The Memory Palace,” a podcast created and produced by Nate DiMeo that features short, narrative essays set to music that conjure lost moments and forgotten figures from America’s past or finds strange, new magic in the familiar.
The event will feature special guests along with beloved and exclusive stories from the Peabody Award-nominated podcast and DiMeo’s new book, “The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past." Copies of the book will be available for purchase from our bookstore partner Brookline Booksmith. DiMeo will sign copies following the event.
CitySpace Tickets:
General: $25.00
Student: $10.00
Ways To Save:
WBUR’s Legacy Circle, Murrow Society, Sustainers and Members save $5.00 on tickets to this event. To apply the discount to your ticket purchase online, you’ll need to enter a promo code. You can get your code by emailing [email protected].
About “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.
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.