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Looking For The Highway: Familiar Essays On The Mythic Journey., Sherman Sutherland

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Introduction: I stumbled upon the form of the familiar essay by chance, Dr. John McKenna, out Graduate Chair and the Chair of my Thesis Committee, suggested I enroll in a course called Modern Familiar Essay. I was skeptical. At the time, I was fairly burned out on writing, and besides: creative nonfiction? That’s memoirs and stuff, right? Failed journalists ghostwriting for professional athletes. If I was going to write, I was going to be a serious writer. Fiction, the Great American Novel, that sort of thing. This was more or less my frame of mine when I talked to Dr. …