Episode 121: Ken Allen
the memory palace
Nate DiMeo
4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Pre-order The Memory Palace book now, pal. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House.
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Music
- Pure (Ride the World) by (the extraordinary) Brendan Eder Ensemble
- Violette... from Philippe Sarde's score to Violette et Francois
- Merry-go-Round and People on Sunday by Domenique Dumont
- Dane by Nils Frahm
- Two different versions of Debussy's Passepied, the piano one is performed by Seong-Jin Cho, the synth one by Isao Tomita
- Love from Matthew Herbert
- Memorial Park from Bernard Herrmann's score to Obsession.
- Phantom Signals by Tvarvargen
Notes
- There's plenty written about Ken Allen, but I particularly appreciated Jason Hribal's book Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 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 |
| 0:16.9 | November 19th of this year. It is called The Memory Palace, interestingly enough. |
| 0:21.1 | It has a number of classic stories from the show. |
| 0:24.0 | It has new stories that will only appear in the book. |
| 0:27.0 | There are illustrations, there are found photographs. |
| 0:30.0 | 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 pass and very proud of them. |
| 0:38.0 | And if you like the show, I think you're going to like this book. |
| 0:41.0 | And if you are one of those people who wanted to share the show |
| 0:43.8 | with other people in your life who just aren't podcast listeners, |
| 0:47.2 | this is your chance. |
| 0:48.2 | It's going to be out just in time for the holiday season. |
| 0:50.8 | But if you want to help me out, me, Nate De Mayo, real life person, if you want to support the show and help new audiences find it. |
| 0:59.0 | If you want to, and this sounds corny, I know, but if you want to help me live out dreams that I've had forever, |
| 1:04.7 | to be a person who gets to write more books, then I'm going to ask you right now to |
| 1:10.5 | pre-order this book. |
| 1:15.0 | Pre-order the Memory Palace by Nate DeMano right now. It will show up at DuDore on November 19th or at your local bookstore |
| 1:19.0 | and you'll be like, oh yeah, I already bought that. |
| 1:22.0 | It's like a gift to yourself. |
| 1:23.0 | Plus you can take care of your whole shopping list right now if you want to. |
| 1:26.0 | But in all sincerity and in all seriousness, |
| 1:30.0 | this weird thing of presales turns out to be super important helps bookstores figure out |
| 1:35.2 | Whether they should order this book. It helps reviewers decide whether they should review this book. |
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