(Susan Biddle/TWP) The Record Book John Berendt's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" clocks an unprecedented four years on the New York Times nonfiction hardback bestseller list.

• Award Winner: With both a PEN Faulkner and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Michael Cunningham's "The Hours" is right on time. Read the first chapter.

• Losing Her Religion: The spiritual journeys of Anne Lamott have been long, and she explores them in "Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith."

Post Columnists:
• Michael Dirda: The wonders of turning 50.

• David Streitfeld: A talk with Salman Rushdie.

• Jonathan Yardley: Remembers the Duke on his birthday.

Poet's Choice:
• Richard Wright: "Five Haikus"

• Claudia Rankine: "The Quotidian"

• Paul Muldoon: "Hopewell Haiku"

• Wang Ping: "Resurrection"

From washingtonpost.com:
Adda: The den for D.C.'s indigenous literati