Nine literary works on earthquakes

David L. Ulin is the author of The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith.

Earlier this year he came up with a list of "ways of looking at earthquakes through literature." One title to make his list:After the Quake by Haruki Murakami.

This 2000 collection of stories was written in reaction to the Kobe earthquake, which killed more than 6,000