Speaking of
Red Hook, the other day I finally read Thomas Wolfe's 1932 short story,
Only The Dead Know Brooklyn, famously written phonetically in the local accent. An' whaddaya know? On Youtube dis guy has read da whole ting out loud, so I cued it up fuh youse to da pawt where he stawts tawkin' about Red Hook,
here. (For additional accent training, look
here.)
