Author

Peter Trachtenberg

@tshakti

Peter Trachtenberg is a nonfiction writer and journalist whose books include 7 Tattoos and The Book of Calamities. His latest book, Another Insane Devotion, the story of a search for a missing cat that opens into a meditation on love and marriage, was just published by Da Capo. He teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.

"Why’s this so good?" No. 67: Dan P. Lee and Travis the killer chimp

It was a sideshow story whose horror was so extravagant that it bordered on vulgarity: On Feb. 16, 2009, a 14-year-old male chimpanzee named Travis, who had been raised from…
December 4, 2012