Blake sits down to chat with author Jonathan Howland about his first novel, Native Air. Plus, the second episode of abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast: "Duck and Cover."

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Jonathan Howland lives in San Francisco. After 36 years of teaching and working in independent schools, he now alternates between climbing trips in western states and writing, gardening, and playing with two grandchildren at home. Also: cooking, yoga-ing, and coyote-sighting in the Presidio of San Francisco, which he frequents with Courtney and their dog Ike. His favorite writers include Melville and Morrison and Marlon James, Faulkner and Woolf and Chekhov, though if limited to just one, Emily Dickinson. Native Air is his first published novel. He’s completing a collection of stories, As We Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us, and working on another novel very unlike Native Air. Welcome Jonathan.