Hello, and welcome to the WBZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich.
One of my favorite subgenres of historical factory is made up of these moments when groups of people, whole societies.
Even, aren't kind of out of their heads.
I don't mean the way that people used to think that shoulder.
Pad it look really good. I mean actually altered perceptions that man over there.
That's a clip from a podcast called The Memory Palace. For fifteen years or so, Nate Demeyo has written, produced, and hosted it short narrative essays about lost moments, forgotten figures, and strange facts from the past. As he says, it's the space between the story of our lives and those lives as we live them. And now Matt has authored his first solo book with highlighted stories from the podcast.
Critics have compared the anecdotes to the late Paul Harvey's Rest of the Story feature because often the endings to these stories are ironic and surprising. I invite you to check out the book The Memory Palace, True Short Stories of the Past by Nate DeMeo, and you also might want to download the podcast. It's fascinating and fun. I'm Jordan Rich with the book Club. WBZ, Boston's news radio