History Of Literature

🇺🇸Burton Rascoe

Journalism

1892–1957

"A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life — what people are interested in. That's journalism."

"For me, the historian's principal task should be to raise the dead to life."

"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. I like to read Archie Ammons, my great friend. And Harold Bloom, another former student."