Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the WBZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite subgenres of historical factory is made
Speaker 2: up of these moments when groups of people, whole societies.
Speaker 3: Even, aren't kind of out of their heads.
Speaker 2: I don't mean the way that people used to think
Speaker 2: that shoulder.
Speaker 3: Pad it look really good. I mean actually altered perceptions
Speaker 3: that man over there.
Speaker 1: That's a clip from a podcast called The Memory Palace.
Speaker 1: For fifteen years or so, Nate Demeyo has written, produced,
Speaker 1: and hosted it short narrative essays about lost moments, forgotten figures,
Speaker 1: and strange facts from the past. As he says, it's
Speaker 1: the space between the story of our lives and those
Speaker 1: lives as we live them. And now Matt has authored
Speaker 1: his first solo book with highlighted stories from the podcast.
Speaker 1: Critics have compared the anecdotes to the late Paul Harvey's
Speaker 1: Rest of the Story feature because often the endings to
Speaker 1: these stories are ironic and surprising. I invite you to
Speaker 1: check out the book The Memory Palace, True Short Stories
Speaker 1: of the Past by Nate DeMeo, and you also might
Speaker 1: want to download the podcast. It's fascinating and fun. I'm
Speaker 1: Jordan Rich with the book Club. WBZ, Boston's news radio