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    Storytelling through Art
    bellebrett
    • Oct 11, 2020
    • 3 min

    Storytelling through Art

    As an artist as well as a writer, I sometimes opt to tell stories through collage, one of my favored media. For my novel, Gina in the...
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    Art and Writing Meet: "Gina's Floating World" at the Great Bay Gallery (Somers Point,
    Belle Brett
    • Jul 15, 2019
    • 3 min

    Art and Writing Meet: "Gina's Floating World" at the Great Bay Gallery (Somers Point,

    I’m not sure when I first got the idea that I wanted to create an exhibit of images that related to my novel, Gina in the Floating World....
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    On Martinis and Mozart: A Remembrance of My Father, George F. Brett (1904-1995)
    Belle Brett
    • Apr 11, 2019
    • 4 min

    On Martinis and Mozart: A Remembrance of My Father, George F. Brett (1904-1995)

    This post is my third family remembrance in just over three weeks. The three members of my nuclear family all died in the springtime, and...
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    My Mother, My Muse
    Belle Brett
    • Apr 3, 2019
    • 3 min

    My Mother, My Muse

    Today is the 19th anniversary of the death of my mother. In 2010, I wrote this post in remembrance of her in a blog I maintained for...
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    Remembering Beth Brett: A Conversation between Beth's Sister and Daughter
    Belle Brett
    • Mar 16, 2019
    • 5 min

    Remembering Beth Brett: A Conversation between Beth's Sister and Daughter

    March 16 is the sixteenth anniversary of the death of Beth Brett, my sister, and mother to Pippa. On the eighth anniversary of her death,...
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    The Writer and Home Renovation Envy
    Belle Brett
    • Mar 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Writer and Home Renovation Envy

    On the cold, dark days of winter, with snow and ice on the ground, I achieve my daily 10,000 Fitbit steps by jogging (slowly) in front of...
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    Digging Deep: Four Books on Japan's Nightlife that Informed My Novel
    Belle Brett
    • Jan 27, 2019
    • 3 min

    Digging Deep: Four Books on Japan's Nightlife that Informed My Novel

    The first draft of my novel, Gina in the Floating World, reflected my own experiences as a foreign bar hostess in a Tokyo suburb in the...
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    Reliving My Book Launch Presentaton: The Evolution of My Novel
    Belle Brett
    • Oct 24, 2018
    • 8 min

    Reliving My Book Launch Presentaton: The Evolution of My Novel

    For those of you who missed my book launch at Porter Square Books on October 2, 2018, I present below the text of my presentation. In...
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    Gaijin Women in Japan: Five Novels
    Belle Brett
    • Sep 10, 2018
    • 3 min

    Gaijin Women in Japan: Five Novels

    After writing the first draft of Gina in the Floating World, I searched for other novels set in Japan with a young, female, and gaijin...
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    Anatomy of A Collage: After Work Delights
    Belle Brett
    • Aug 23, 2018
    • 2 min

    Anatomy of A Collage: After Work Delights

    In addition to being a writer, I am also an artist. I work in several media, but one of my favorite is paper or mixed media collage....
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    1981
    Belle Brett
    • Jul 24, 2018
    • 2 min

    1981

    (Image from Amazon.com) It may feel like an arbitrary year, but I chose 1981 quite intentionally as the year in which Gina in the...
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    How I Became a Bar Hostess in Japan, Part II
    Belle Brett
    • Mar 8, 2018
    • 3 min

    How I Became a Bar Hostess in Japan, Part II

    As I prepared for my interview with Mr. K, the club owner, I worried about my lack of glamour. I had all the wrong clothes and the wrong...
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    How I Became a Bar Hostess in Japan, Part I
    Belle Brett
    • Feb 23, 2018
    • 4 min

    How I Became a Bar Hostess in Japan, Part I

    The rain poured down in opaque sheets outside the American Express office in Tokyo, where I collected my mail, and considered my...
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