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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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