This is how I heard the story. “Moonglow,” a novel, now in paperback, by Michael Chabon Where was that nugget of old, dried-up s— weed I bought on the Venice boardwalk two years ago from a vagrant dealer who may or may not have sold me a thimble full of dirt mixed with oregano? “Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind,” by Jaime Lowe When I was eleven years old, I went looking for my grandfather in William Manchester’s book “The Death of a President.