Mark Darrah

A Catalogue of Common People Mark Darrah

"Test given truth; find and live your own. Nothing ever is as it appears to be." Public radio commentator and essayist Mark Darrah shares true stories of uncommon common people in this collection of short writings. Covering such diverse topics as searching for the headless woman who wanders the grounds of a Mexican War era fort on nights of the full moon, potty training on old U. S. Highway 66, and the imponderables attendant with caring for an aging parent, A Catalogue of Common People explores "what it means to be a thinking and feeling human being in 21st Century America." Mark has been called a postmodern Paul Harvey and the writer Sarah Vowell would have been "if she'd been born male." "If there is such a thing as a collective voice for the dreams and misgivings we all share, then Darrah has captured it with eloquence." -- Teresa Miller, author of Remnants of Glory. "Rich with insight and nostalgia, shot through with a kind of exquisite melancholia, and filled to the brim with an optimism that never fails to renew itself..." -- John Wooley, popular host of "Swing on This" from Public Radio Tulsa 89.5 FM and author of The Big Book of Biker Flicks.