All Episodes
the memory palace — 325 episodes
A Song of Myself
Episode 66: White Heat/White Lights
Rush, Hall, Bartlett, and Thornton
A White Horse
Episode 245: The Self-Believer, or Hasting by Musket and Sextant
Episode 244: Pathways
Episode 243: The Brothers Switzer
A Story and a Song (A Memory Palace/Song Exploder Crossover Event)
Episode 242: The Handwriter
Episode 122: Hercules
Episode 241: Stay Gold
Episode 240: Islanders
Pinch hitting!
Public Domain Theater 2026
Nate's Favorite Episode of the Year: Emma and the Trail
Episode 239: Blank Pages
From The Memory Palace Audiobook: Fine New England Granite
Episode 238: The Crypt of Thornwell Jacobs
A Teach-In for History
Episode 237: Vigil
Episode 133: Antidisestablishmentarianism
Episode 236: The Times
Summer Reading: Two Transcendent Poems About Public Transportation
Episode 235: The Girls, their Teachers, their Parents
Episode 234: Looking for Parking, Late Winter, 1996
Episode 233: Nan + Warren
A White Horse
Episode 232: Oh, Herbert Morrison
Episode 231: On Dexter Avenue
Episode 230: Helen Hulick Takes the Stand
Episode 229: Teammates
Episode 228: Free Time
Episode 227: A Brief Note Written After Learning the National Parks Service Removed the word Transgender from Stonewall'
Episode 176: The Air and the Sea and the Land
Episode 226: A Wild One
Episode 225: Emma and the Trail
Stories About The Memory Palace Audiobook
Episode 224: Two Postcards
Nate on Atlas Obscura
Nate DiMeo and Pablo Torre Find Out
Sutro and the Tides
Episode 150: Late One Night
Episode 222: Ferminia Sarras
Episode 221: Ken Allen
Episode 220: The Zipper
Episode 219: Lost Jobs
A White Horse
Episode 218: Olga
Hazel, Mark, and a One-Time Juliet
Episode 216: Awake
Episode 215: An Eighth Wonder
Episode 214: Newsboy
Episode 213: The Light and the Spirits
Episode 212: David Mills
Episode 211: Cutting and Ned
Smoky and Bill, a Holiday Card
Episode 210: Smoky and Bill
Episode 120: The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habita
Episode 209: Wake
Episode 208: In the Gallery
Episode 207: The Six Triple Eight
Episode 206: The Thundering Herd, The Vanishing American
Episode 79: Artist in Landscape
Episode 90: A White Horse
Episode 205: Alice Ramsay
Episode 204: Wolves
episode 76: Mary Walker Would Wear what she Wanted
Episode 67: Every Night Ever
Episode 148: Safe Passage
Episode 94: Numbers (rebroadcast)
Nate's episode of the year 2022: In France or in Heaven
Episode 203: The News from Thar
Episode 202: Better Babies
Episode 201: One Fruit
Episode 200: Ghost Story
Episode 199: Nee Blinky
Episode 198: Weather Conditions Above Mount Fuji
Episode 115: A Brief Eulogy for a Commercial Radio Station
Episode 124: Junk Room
Episode 91: Natural Habitat
Episode 197: Kiddo
Episode 90: A White Horse
Episode 152: Let it Snow
Episode 196: In France or in Heaven
Episode 195: A New Bronze Man
Episode 194: Small Sample
Episode 101: Promise
Episode 193: Classmates (Making Trouble)
Episode 192: Combinations
Episode 191: Crash
Nate's Favorite Episode of 2021: Betty Robinson
Episode 190: The Ride
Episode 189: New England Granite
Episode 188: Spirits
Episode 187: The Woods
Episode 63: Other Bodies
Episode 186: Shining
Episode 185: The Life and Works of a Monumental Figure
Memory Palace Summer Reading: The Great Gatsby, part 3
Memory Palace Summer Reading: The Great Gatsby, Part 2
Memory Palace Summer Reading: The Great Gatsby, Part 1
Episode 184: Betty Robinson
Episode 183: Goblins
Episode 182: The Surfmen
Episode 181: The Adventures of Pearl
Episode 180: Tracks
Episode 179: Keyhole
Episode 178: Crossfade
Episode 77: Butterflies
Episode 177: A Brief Eulogy for Carla Wallenda
Episode 176: The Air and the Sea and the Land
Episode 175: One Hundred Percent a Diner
Episode 174: The Stone
Episode 105: Amok
Episode 173: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Episode 172: The Existential Tourist
Episode 171: Out to Sea and Back Again
Episode of the Year 2020
Episode 170: Reed v.
The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe
From a Parking Lot, a special bonus episode for the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival
High Falls, a bonus episode for the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival
Episode 169: Beautician
Episode 168: The Traveling Stones
The Wheel
Episode 167: A Brief Eulogy for a Minor League Baseball Team
Episode 166: The Silent Room
A White Horse
Episode 165: A Park
Episode 164: Dora Salter
Episode 163: Freds
Episode 162: A Strange Land
Episode 161: Stories to Wash Hands By
Episode 160: Wong Kim Ark
Episode 159: The Newest News
Episode 158: Life's Work
Episode 157: The House of Lowe
Episode 156: That's How it Goes Whenever it Snows
Episode 155: Lost Bulls
Nate's Favorite Episode of 2019
Episode 154: Dotting I's
A Conversation About the Memory Palace with Robert Krulwich
Episode 153: Dinner at Jefferson's
Episode 152: Let it Snow
Episode 151: The Story of Maria Barberi
Episode 150: Late One Night
Episode 149: Dance by the Ocean
Episode 148: Safe Passage
Episode 147: Shipwreck Kelly
A Welcome! And Dreamland!
Episode 146: Two Memorials, Last Week of July, 2019
Episode 145: Stories about the St. Louis
Episode 144: Nature Naturally
A White Horse
Episode 143: The Only One
Episode 142: Private Robinson on Pawnee Rock
Episode 141: This Story Climbed Mount Washington
Rebroadcast: Origin Stories
Episode 140: Jackie Mitchell
Episode 139: 1,347 Birds
Episode 138: Sixty Starlings
A Memory Palace/Radio Diaries Crossover Event
Episode 137: Swans
Episode 136 (Ten Fingers, Ten Toes)
Nate's Episode of the Year for 2018
Episode 135: Revolutions
2018 Fundraiser Bonus Episode!
Election Eve Rebroadcast (In Line)
Episode 134 (The Dress in the Closet)
Episode 133: Antidisestablishmentarianism
Episode 132 (Ida Lewis)
Episode 131 (Lost Locusts)
Episode 130 (Independence Hall 2: The Legend of Walter Knott)
Summer Re-run: Episode 68 (White Heat, White Light)
Episode 129: Uplift
Episode 128 (Patience)
A White Horse, re-released on the second anniversary of the shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.
No Summer (Episode 127)
Episode 126 (The 8th Story)
Episode 125: Snakes!
Episode 124 (Junk Room)
A quick update and a bonus episode
Episode 123: Outliers
Big Block of Cheese - Bonus episode
Episode 122 (Hercules)
Episode 121 (The Nickel Candy Bar)
Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habita
Nate's Episode of the Year: If You Have to be a Floor
Episode 119 (John C. Calhoun from the Opposite Side of the Line that Divides the Living from the Dead)
Episode 118 (On the Shores of Assawompset)
Episode 117 (Elizabeth)
Episode 116 (Hoover)
Episode 115 (A Brief Eulogy for a Commercial Radio Station)
Sometimes the Rain Just Doesn't Stop
Two Small Sculptures (The Met Residency Episode 8)
Orbes Cintilantes - A special summer episode
"Relics": A Special Bonus Episode
A Scavenger Hunt (The Met Residency Episode 7)
Episode 113 (Elmer McCurdy Rides Again and Again)
Episode 112 (The Taking of Tom Sawyer's Island)
A White Horse, re-released on the second anniversary of the shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.
Episode 111 (Cipher, or Greenhow Girls)
If You Have to be a Floor (The Met Residency Episode 6)
Episode 110 (Lost Camels)
Episode 109 (The Year Hank Greenberg Hit 58 Home Runs)
Notes on a Plaque, Still Imagined
Episode 108, Met Residency #5: Temple
Episode 107 (Roots and Branches and Wind-Borne Seeds)
Episode 106 (A Washington Monument)
Episode 105: Amok
Episode 104, Met Residency #4 (A Portrait)
Episode 103 (The Rose of Long Island)
Episode 102 (The Presidency of William Henry Harrison, or Back in the Saddle)
Nate's Episode of the Year: Local Channels
Episode 101 (Promise)
Episode 100 (Peregrinar)
Episode 99, Met Residency #3 (Full Circle)
An odd, pre-election bonus episode: a full reading of Song of Myself
Episode 98 (Under Our Feet)
Episode 97 (In Line)
The Met Residency Episode M2: One Bottle, Any Bottle
The Met Residency Episode 1: Recent Acqusition
Episode 96 (Canali)
Episode 95 (Haunting)
Episode 94 (Numbers)
From the Vault: Dreamland
Episode 93 (Local Channels)
Episode 92 (Oil, Water)
Episode 91 (Natural Habitat)
Episode 90 (A White Horse)
Episode 89 (Family Snapshot)
Episode 88 (Open Road)
From the Vault: A Special Mother's Day Re-Run
Episode 87 (Victory)
Episode 86 (Finishing Hold)
Episode 85 (AKA Leo)
Episode 84 (Homesteading)
Episode 83 (Overland)
Episode 82 (The Wheel)
Episode 81 (Below, from Above)
Episode (M): Gallery 742
Episode 80 (Shore Leave)
Episode 79 (Artist in Landscape)
Episode 78 (no. 116,842)
Episode 77 (Butterflies)
Episode 76 (Mary Walker Would Wear What She Wanted)
Episode 75 (The Ballad of Captain Dwight)
Episode 74 (Craning)
Episode 73 (Notes on an Imagined Plaque to be Added to the Statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Upon Hearing that t
Episode 72 (Run-of-the-River)
Episode 71 (Zulu Charlie Romeo)
Episode 70 (Developments in the Design and Manufacture of American Menswear 1840-1860, a Fable)
Episode 69 (Charlie: God of Rain)
Episode 68 (White Heat, White Lights)
Episode 67 (Every Night Ever)
Episode 66 (The Pirate Queen)
HIgh Above Lake Michigan: Special Platinum Edition
Forgotten Things: A Failed Pilot
Itty Bitty Bombs: Special Platinum Edition
The Brothers Booth Schmancy Platinum Remaster Edition
Episode 65 (Two-Dimensional Projectile Motion Problems)
Episode 64 (The 7th Story)
Episode 63 (Other Bodies)
Episode 62 (We've Forgotten James Powell)
Episode 61 (The Glowing Orbs)
Episode 60 (400,000 Stars)
Episode 59 (Harriet Quimby)
Episode 58 (Shadowboxing)
Episode 57 (I'm Still Alive)
Episode 56 (The Rush of the River and the Roar of the Falls)
Episode 55 (O, How We Danced)
Episode 54 (Origin Stories)
Episode 53 (Guinea Pigs)
Episode 52 (Six Stories)
Episode 51 (Giants in Those Days)
Episode 50 (Fifty Words Written After Learning That the Arctic Bowhead Whale Can Live up to 200 Years)
Episode 49 (Dreamland)
Episode 48 (Picture a Box)
Episode 47 (The Rise and Fall of Rising and Falling) *NOTE: semi-adult language in this one.
Episode 46 (After Party)
Episode 45 (Heard, Once)
Episode 44 (Distance)
Episode 43 (Far Below Lake Michigan)
Episode 42 (What They Saw)
Episode 41 (Mary, Mary, and Mercy)
Episode 40 (Crazy Bet)
Episode 39 (Road Trip)
Episode 38 (A Stretch)
Episode 37 (Natural Curiosity)
Episode 36 (Six Scenes in the Life of William J. Sidis, Wonderful Boy)
Episode 35 (A Brief Eulogy for a Consumer Electronics Product)
Episode 34 (Soldier Frum)
Episode 33 (Lost Lobsters)
Episode 32 (Gigantic)
Episode 31 (Looking Up)
Episode 30 (Nee Weinberg)
Episode 29 (OMG!!! JKP!!!)
Episode 28 (Babysitting)
Episode 27 (The Sisters Fox)
Episode 26 (Citius, Altius, Fortius, Horrendius)
Episode 25 (I Have Not Yet Begun to Rot)
Episode 24 (The Moon in the Sun)
Episode 23 (400 Words for 79th Street)
Episode 22 (You Know You’re Sick)
Episode 21 (A Gas Gas Gas)
Episode 20 (This Ungainly Fowl)
Episode 19 (Dam!)
Episode 18 (Dig Set Spike)
Episode 17 (Plummeting Approval)
Episode 16 (Secret Kitty)
Episode 15 (Presidente Walker)
Episode 14 (The Messrs. Craft)
Episode 13 (High Above Lake Michigan)
Episode 12 (These Words, Forever)
Episode 11 (The Brothers Booth)
Episode 10 (International Brotherhood of Mothers)
Episode 9 (Ben Franklin Death Ray)
Episode 8 (The World Within the World)
Episode 7 (Li’l Nipper)
Episode 6 (The Saddest President)
Episode 5 (Oh My!)
Episode 4 (Itty Bitty Bombs)
Episode 3 (High Societies)
Episode 2 (Lost Pigeons)
Episode 1 (Horrible Deaths)