- Venus and Serena Against the World in the New York Times focuses more on the Williams’ father than on the sisters, but it’s an interesting read anyway.
- Rogue monkey? A guy with a bunch of tigers and tortoises in his back yard? Civil disobedience from a 106-year-old? What’s a Monkey to Do in Tampa? is pretty much the greatest thing I’ve ever read. And it’s also from the New York Times!
At one point, the two men were staring into tangled brush, stumped, when Manson tilted his head and saw the monkey perched with ninja-like stillness above him, close enough to touch. The two primates locked eyes. Then the monkey turned and was gone. “And that’s really when the story began,” Manson told me. It was the third week of January 2009. Now, more than three and a half years later, the macaque is still on the loose.