Best Nate DiMeo Podcasts (2025)

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Writer's Forum: Nate DiMeo 28:37

15d ago28:37

28:37

Originally aired on April 16th, 2025.By WRBH Reading Radio

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#458 Parkways and the Transformation of Brooklyn 56:35

4d ago56:35

56:35

When Prospect Park was first opened to the public in the late 1860s, the City of Brooklyn was proud to claim a landmark as beautiful and as peaceful as New York’s Central Park. But the superstar landscape designers — Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux — weren’t finished. This park came with two grand pleasure drives, wide boulevards that emanat…

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Public Affairs: Zach Frosch 27:15

2d ago27:15

27:15

Originally aired on May 5th, 2025.By WRBH Reading Radio

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Public Affairs: Rashawn Carriere 29:13

3d ago29:13

29:13

Originally aired on April 28th, 2025.By WRBH Reading Radio

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Prisoners of War 19:51

9d ago19:51

19:51

It's been 50 years since the end of the Vietnam war. In honor of the anniversary, we're revisiting a story about a notorious American military prison on the outskirts of Saigon, called Long Binh Jail. LBJ wasn’t for captured enemy fighters—it was for American soldiers. These were men who had broken military law. And there were a lot of them. As the…

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Episode 231: On Dexter Avenue 17:54

7d ago17:54

17:54

Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm. During mid-May, 2025, I'm doing a Midwestern book tour, with stops in Minneapolis, Cincinatti, Indianapolis, and Chicago. Find out more at www.thememorypalace.us/events. T…

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Claire Cameron on what she's learned from studying monsters 41:25

9d ago41:25

41:25

Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with Claire Cameron, author of the novels The Bear and The Last Neanderthal. Her new book is How to Survive a Bear Attack. It’s a memoir of family, of illness, of love, and the author’s ongoing fascination with a 1991 bear attack that happened in a wilderness she knows so well. Claire Cameron on what she's learned from stu…

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#457 FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD 59:46

18d ago59:46

59:46

On October 29, 1975, President Gerald Ford walked into a press conference at the National Press Club and, using more precise, more eloquent words than legend remembers, but in no uncertain terms, told New York City that the federal government was not going to bail it out. The following day the New York Daily News -- the city's first tabloid newspap…

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Public Affairs: Mayte Hernandez 27:40

14d ago27:40

27:40

Originally aired on April 21st, 2025.By WRBH Reading Radio

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Public Affairs: Charles Fuschillo 27:17

14d ago27:17

27:17

Originally aired on April 14th, 2025.By WRBH Reading Radio

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Public Affairs: Dr. David Kennedy 27:32

14d ago27:32

27:32

Originally aired on April 7th, 2025.By WRBH Reading Radio

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Public Affairs: Jamie Wax 29:06

14d ago29:06

29:06

Originally aired on March 31st, 2025.By WRBH Reading Radio

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Public Affairs: Tara Waldron 30:00

14d ago30:00

30:00

Originally aired on March 24th, 2025.By WRBH Reading Radio

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Public Affairs: Sandra Herman 28:15

14d ago28:15

28:15

Originally aired on March 17th, 2025.By WRBH Reading Radio

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Writer's Forum: Sharon Lacour 22:15

15d ago22:15

22:15

Originally aired on April 1st, 2025.By WRBH Reading Radio

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Writer's Forum: Cynthia Pelayo 28:41

15d ago28:41

28:41

Originally aired on March 25th, 2025.By WRBH Reading Radio

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Wrier's Forum: Lisa Genova 29:16

15d ago29:16

29:16

Originally aired on March 18, 2025.By WRBH Reading Radio

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#456 Walking New York: Manhattan History on Foot with Keith Taillon 59:07

25d ago59:07

59:07

Join us for an interview with Instagram historian Keith Taillon (@keithyorkcity), whose detailed posts about New York's history have earned him nearly 60,000 followers and launched a successful tour business. Keith shares the story behind his remarkable pandemic project of walking every single block of Manhattan in 2020, capturing the empty city in…

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March of the Bonus Army 16:18

22d ago16:18

16:18

Author James Baldwin once wrote, "I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." On this episode, we go back to 1932 when a group of World War I veterans set up an encampment in Washington, D.C., and vowed to stay until their voices were heard. It was a rema…

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Episode 230: Helen Hulick Takes the Stand 15:48

21d ago15:48

15:48

Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm. During mid-April, 2025, I'm doing a southern book tour, with stops in San Antonio, Houston, Gainesville, Montgomery, New Orleans, and Oxford. Find out more at www.thememor…

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Nita Prose on saying goodbye to Molly Gray 27:29

23d ago27:29

27:29

Host Michael Tamblyn spoke with mystery novelist Nita Prose, author of the international bestseller The Maid. It’s the story of Molly Gray, a 20-something hotel maid whose job perfectly suits her need for order and predictable routine. As tends to happen in mystery novels set in hotels, Molly discovers a dead guest and finds herself a suspect in th…

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#455 House of Beauty: The Story of the Frick Collection 1:12:10

1M ago1:12:10

1:12:10

We invite you to come with us inside one of America’s most interesting art museums – an institution that is BOTH an art gallery and a historic home. This is The Frick Collection, located at 1 East 70th Street, within the former Fifth Avenue mansion of Gilded Age mogul Henry Clay Frick, containing many pieces that the steel titan himself purchased, …

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Writer's Forum: Zeeva Bukai 29:28

30d ago29:28

29:28

Originally aired on March 11th. 2025.By WRBH Reading Radio

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Writer's Forum: Bob Johnson 27:43

30d ago27:43

27:43

Originally aired on March 4th, 2025.By WRBH Reading Radio

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Writer's Forum: Nick Kolakowski 27:34

30d ago27:34

27:34

Originally aired on February 25th, 2025.By WRBH Reading Radio

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The Girls of the Leesburg Stockade 16:14

1M ago16:14

16:14

On July 19, 1963, at least 15 Black girls were arrested while marching to protest segregation in Americus, Georgia. After spending a night in jail, they were transferred to the one-room Leesburg Stockade and imprisoned for the next 45 days. Only twenty miles away, the girls' parents had no knowledge of their location. A month into their confinement…

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Episode 229: Teammates 15:56

1M ago15:56

15:56

Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm. During mid-April, 2025, I'm doing a southern book tour, with stops in San Antonio, Houston, Gainesville, Montgomery, New Orleans, and Oxford. Find out more at www.thememor…

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Booktalking - The book Meta can't face, billionaire brainworms, fact-checking and fair use 46:47

1M ago46:47

46:47

In our latest installment in this series, hosts Michael Tamblyn and Nathan Maharaj caught up on a book whose author they're not going to get to interview. Topics covered in this episode: Meta's problem with an ex-employee's tell-all memoir The cognitive perils of being a billionaire The publishing perils of nonfiction Moving fast and breaking thing…

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#454 Special Delivery: A History of the Post Office 1:22:59

2M ago1:22:59

1:22:59

The history of the United States Postal Service as it plays out in the streets of New York City -- from the first post road to the first postage stamps. From the most beautiful post office in the country to the forgotten Gilded Age landmark that was once considered the ugliest post office. The postal service has always served as the country's circu…

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#453 All The Beauty In The World: Guarding the Met with Patrick Bringley 58:53

2M ago58:53

58:53

A special bonus episode! Two years ago we featured Patrick Bringley on the show, the author of All The Beauty In The World (Simon & Schuster), regarding his experiences as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the life lessons he learned strolling silently past priceless works of art. The book has become a massive best-seller world…

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Guest Spotlight: Signal Hill 37:20

2M ago37:20

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This week we're featuring a story from a brand new audio magazine we've been listening to called Signal Hill. "Pie Down Here" features oral history interviews with farmworkers and Communist Party members who organized a sharecroppers' union in Alabama during the Great Depression. The interviews were recorded by historian Robin Kelley for his book, …

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Episode 228: Free Time 12:18

2M ago12:18

12:18

Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm. The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit …

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#452 How New York Got Its Name 1:10:32

2M ago1:10:32

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It's one of the most foundational questions we could ever ask on this show -- how did New York City get its name? You may know that the English conquered the Dutch settlement of New Netherland (and its port town of New Amsterdam) in 1664, but the details of this history-making day have remained hazy -- until now. Russell Shorto brought the world of…

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Nate DiMeo on shaking up the past in The Memory Palace 41:52

2M ago41:52

41:52

Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with podcaster Nate DiMeo about his book The Memory Palace, based on the podcast by the same name. In The Memory Palace, history comes in vignettes, as short stories, as jewels carefully mined from a variety of sources. Nathan and Nate talked about history as story, how Nate realized the thing that made him the best guy to…

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