Hell Is Other People (Whaley, 2009)

Chattanooga has always summed up my memories of Tennessee. The verdant rise of Lookout Mountain. Leafy suburbs dotted with staircases and sidewalks. Empty lots next to dumpy liquor stores. A few main drags of a half-heartedly preserved downtown. The remains of an industrial middle age scattered between a rich Dixie history and a cosmopolitan future. Even though this Chattanooga only appears in flashes in Jarrod Whaley’s Hell is Other People, it works well as background for... Read More