The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.A Note on Notes:I always prefer that the listener goes into each episode cold, not knowing what it's going to be about. So, you might want to tread carefully, as there are spoilers in the notes below. Music L'espagne pour memoire by Michel Portal Find me Tomorrow from Christophe Beck's score to Charlie Countryman The old Soviet philharmonic plays some Shostakovich. The London Symphony Orchestra plays The Blue Danube Waltz. We hear Walt by Mother Falcon. Sombolero by Luiz Bonfa Notes Like a lot of people below, say, 55, I first heard about Olga Fikotova-Connolly when reading her obituary in the New York Times. By far the best thing you can do if you want to know more about her is track down her out-of-print memoir, The Rings of Destiny, which, despite its rather puffed-up title, is so warm and detailed and intimate. It's a delight. You might also enjoy this late-in-life interview with Olga as well.
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Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates price and coverage match limited by state law hey, this is Nate, and before we get started, I am very excited.
I have been waiting to do this for months.
So I have a book coming out from Random House on November 19 of this year.
It is called the Memory palace.
Interestingly enough, it has a number of classic stories from the show.
It has new stories that will only appear in the book.
There are illustrations.
There are found photographs.
There's a whole section of memoir based stories that are nothing like I've ever done before, but that also feel like the memory palace.
Very proud of them.
And if you like the show, I think you're gonna like this book.
And if you are one of those people who wanted to share the show with other people in your life who just aren't podcast listeners, this is your chance.
It's gonna be out just in time for the holiday season.
But if you want to help me out, me, Nate DiMeo, real life person, if you wanna support the show and help new audiences find it, if you wanna.
And this sounds corny, I know, but if you wanna help me live out dreams that I've had forever to be a person who gets to write more books, then I'm gonna ask you right now to pre order this book.
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