9. Harder to deal with is the reality that this research monkey may become a chronic alcoholic because of an unhappy childhood and an obsession for Tom Waits's early recordings.

1) This is a sentence fragment. You need to add a verb (like "is" in order for it to be an independent clause).

2) According to The Chicago Manual of Style, proper nouns that end in "s" must take an 's after the "s."