A Catalogue of Common People

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, potty training on old U.S. Highway 66, and the imponderables attendant with caring for an aging parent, A Catalogue of Common People provides "an exploration of what it means to be a thinking and feeling human being in 21st Century America."

Mark Darrah has been called a postmodern Paul Harvey and the writer Sarah Vowell would have been "if she'd been born male."


"This book is as seductive as grandma's peanut brittle. Once you start reading, you won't stop." Michael Wallis, author of Route 66: The Mother Road.