- Dream, baby: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRTCqgAkfg #24hClerk #
- #wny11 RT @ashleyanndarcy scariest description of an object of affection goes to abraham cahan in yekl: #
- #wny11 #alumni RT @paezpumarl: @jennpelly omg. that is the greatest haul for an English major, ever. #
- @rtmiyake It may happen. #
- Today's #wny11 lecture: Abraham Cahan's LES immigrant novel YEKL. Here's a short, anti-gentrification history of LES: http://bit.ly/ebGO8R #
- Like our CCLNY contrib Sarah Wilson, Cyrus reads Cahan alongside James, Wharton, Crane in a capacious "novel of manners" tradition. #wny11 #
- Clip from Ric Burns's New York, in which Robert Sean Leonard performs Sidewalks of NY: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsx_uxISjM0 #wny11 #
- Another take on Sidewalks of New York: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsdLIGyJ5mQ #wny11 #
- Image search results for Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: http://bit.ly/e208Gd #wny11 #
- Thomas Edison's silent footage of an LES fish market, 1913: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctmjjfA0ZV4 #wny11 #
- Thomas Edison's silent footage of an LES fish market, 1903: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctmjjfA0ZV4 #wny11 #
- Joan Micklin Silver's HESTER STREET references early films like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsd7jUNY4vk via @librarycongress #wny11 #
- Meet the greenhorn (from HESTER STREET): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxhJfVq5QuQ #wny11 #
- @rtmiyake So maybe it's not the whole lecture, but you have to admit he gets a few good moments of dialogue in there. #wny11 #
- "Perhaps we shall have a NY speech which shall be to English what the native Yiddish of his characters is to Hebrew" Howells on Cahan #wny11 #
- On the decline of the New York accent: http://bit.ly/gYlFgr via @jeremoss #wny11 #
- My favorite part of Cyrus's YEKL lecture: the baseball scene from HESTER STREET. More on his take here: http://bit.ly/dRwcyi #wny11 #
- A round-up of links from PWHNY re: Cahan's YEKL: http://ahistoryofnewyork.com/2010/03/previously-cahan/ #wny11 #
- .@cpatell on the "problem of hyphenation": http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_literary_history/v015/15.1patell.html #wny11 #
- "Sidewalks Of New York" Player piano roll w/ words http://t.co/KcpeJ12 via @youtube #wny11 #
- #wny11 RT @newinquiry This Sunday, March 13, @newinquiry is screening "The Cruise" in Brooklyn: http://j.mp/er4jp9 #
- @jennpelly But you did anyway, which is a far cry better than dying in the Tombs, right? #ahhumanity #wny11 #midterms #
- @FlyingHubcap Careful, you'll give us a reputation as softies, which isn't always the case! We take turns being bad cop, varying wk to wk. #
- #hopelessromantic #ageofinnocence RT @blackburnrecs still kills me that he doesn't go up the stairs #wny11 #
- Caravan? MT @terryteachout What should I call my Duke Ellington bio? The working title is "Black Beauty," but most people don't like it. #
- Hoping that @greghoward88 of @nytlev eventually comes to see that shiny and new ? "progressive." #35coopersq http://bit.ly/eJOBJ3 #
- Smile. #wny11 RT @ashleyanndarcy in my room alone shouting because ragtime is the best book ever i am dying it is so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #
- #wny11 "Hold back the edges of your gowns, Ladies, we are going through hell." –Williams, William Carlos RT @HowlTweeter III #
- MT @cszabla voodoo gentrification: before 80s economics, gentrification's victory not so inevitable | @maisonneuvemag http://bit.ly/hvWu3q #
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