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Sometimes, when walking Brooklyn's streets, it doesn't feel as if its literary past is haunting. Rather, its literary soul is still alive and pulsating. Brooklyn is a world unto itself and a writer's enclave. Journalist and critic Evan Hughes has written a literary biography of the leafy borough.

Award-winning novelist Robert Stone hung out for many years with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. He recounts the group's cross-country road trips and experiences taking hallucinogenic drugs in his memoir, Prime Green.

Tom Wolfe wrote about Ken Kesey's LSD experiments in the book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. In 1987, Wolfe spoke to Terry Gross about following Kesey and the Merry Pranksters.

Father and son Mabruk and Malik Eshnuk recently traveled from Pittsburgh to western Libya to help rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi. NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro updates the story with their first — and last — battle.

Father and son Mabruk and Malik Eshnuk recently traveled from Pittsburgh to western Libya to help rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi. NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro updates the story with their first — and last — battle.

Historian Adam Hochschild traces the patriotic fervor that catapulted Great Britain into war during the summer of 1914 — as well as the small, but determined British pacifist movement — in his historical narrative To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918.

Costly licensing fees and content deals with other companies limit Netflix's ability to offer all the movies and TV shows for streaming that its customers want. Experts say the company must find the balance of offering enough variety at the right price to keep up its popularity.

Fairy tales — those stories of princes and princesses, spells and magic — have sparked kids' imaginations for centuries. But author John Baxter suggests a very different kind of fiction to get young synapses firing: He recommends three tales filled with creepy characters you're sure to love.

On The Media co-host Brooke Gladstone says the media is not so much a machine, as a mirror that reflects the world back at us. Her her comic book is called The Influencing Machine.

Aid groups say they are making progress in delivering food to Somalia. But the need is critical and growing as the death toll continues to mount.