Where Elvis Meets Jesus

An amusing take on hostels in the US and the colorful variety of people who stay there as a result of a down-turned economy:
Where Elvis Meets Jesus: The Surprising World of Big City Hostels in the Wake of the Great Recession

Where else can you encounter a 60-year-old sci-fi novelist, a China-hopping airline pilot from New York with a masters' degree from GWU, an otherwise coherent German who insists he is Jesus Christ, a multilingual terrorist interrogator named Elvis, and a 40-something pianist who was once the toast of Boston’s nightclubs?