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Music

• The Lady With the Golden Stockings from the Sun Ra Arkestra
• The Sage from the Chico Hamilton Quintet
• Falling in Love with a New York Pigeon by Birb
• Bocherini's fourth quintet as performed by the Ensemble of St. Martin of the Fields
• From a Dream by Oregon
• Jaybird from the great Charlie Parr
• Pool of Love by Les Baxter
• And House Tuner Theme from Will Bates' gorgeous score to The Sound of Silence.

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Audio excerpted courtesy of Random House Audio from THE MEMORY PALACE by Nate DiMeo, read by a full cast. Excerpt read by Nate DiMeo, © 2024 Nate DiMeo, ℗ 2024 Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved.

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 public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate.

Music

• Kara-Lis Coverdale's A480
• Palimpsest from Will Bate's score to The Sound of Silence
• Harriett Smith and Robert Martin Meet in the Rain from Isobel Waller Bridge's score to Emma.
• The Play from Dan Romer's score to (the terrific) Station Eleven.
• Cutting Branches from a Temporary Shelter from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
• Sustainable from H. Takahashi.

Notes

• There's a particularly good article by Colin Dickey about Jacobs and The Crypt in American Scholar.
• You can read all 1100 pages of Jacobs' autobiography here, if you haven't already.