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Distance
Far Below Lake Michigan
What They Saw
This is the third episode in a series of Civil War stories I’m doing every month for Slate.com as part of its Slate Daily Podcast Music: Two pieces here. Both straight out of a favorite summer of mine, maybe 1999. … Continue reading
Mary, Mary, and Mercy
Crazy Bet
This episode is part of my on-going collaboration with Slate.com. Once a month, for a stretch, I’ll be producing a Civil War-themed podcast as part of the series.
Road Trip
Notes: This episode appeared originally as part of a series called “Civil War Stories” I’m doing for Slate.com. Starting in August, 2011, these episodes appear monthly as part of Slate’s Daily Podcast and then appear here as part of the … Continue reading
Slate Series is Go
I’ll be doing a new, monthly series for Slate.com of Civil War stories. Same memory palace flavor (or flava, depending). Each will roughly correspond to an event that took place a hundred fifty years ago to the month. That’s the … Continue reading
A Stretch
Music: We’ve got three pieces (Chickens, Swamp, and Squirrels) from Orion Riegel Dommisse’s album, also, delightfully, called chickens. Windy bit is Africastle by Battles. Plucky, shuffly, stringy bit is from Alexandre Desplat’s score to The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Notes: This … Continue reading
Hiatus
Hi there. The Memory Palace has been on a bit of a hiatus. It’ll be over soon. For real. nate




