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    Aug 23, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  1. 9 earthquake books revisited

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    A list of nine books that channel both the terror and awe of witnessing an earthquake....
    2. Mar 14, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  2. 9 ways of looking at earthquakes through literature

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    David L. Ulin, author of The Myth of Solid Ground, selects 9 iconic books that deal with earthquakes....
    3. Feb 25, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  3. John Banville: a master at work

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    It's been almost five years since John Banville won the Booker Prize for his novel "The Sea," and in that time he's published two crime novels under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. Now he's back, as Banville, with "The Infinities," a......
    4. Mar 4, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Chilean earthquakes through a writer's eyes -- not Bolaño but Kleist

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    This week, in a post about the 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile over the weekend, GalleyCat quoted the late Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño on the unbearable lightness of seismicity. "Sometimes," Bolaño observed, "the earth shakes. ... The epicenter...
    5. Aug 24, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Earthquakes in literature

    Earthquakes are the expression of a living planet, the earth's way of re-inventing itself. But while this knowledge may be consoling in the abstract, it's not very useful in the face of a catastrophe such as the quake and tsunami in Japan. At these times, we need real consolation: food and water, emergency services and rescue ... and, David L. Ulin suggests, literature. Ulin is the author of "The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith."
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    Earthquakes are the expression of a living planet, the earth's way of re-inventing itself. But while this knowledge may be consoling in the abstract, it's not very useful in the face of a catastrophe such as the quake and tsunami in Japan. At these times,...

    Tags: Human Interest, Movies, Chile Earthquake (2010), New York, Santa Barbara County Fires (2008)

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