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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Not sure if the February newsletter is a review of Katabasis or a review of reviewing or a review of me 🤔🧐 open.substack.com/pub/theredra...

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Reading in a Big Room

February 2026: Should I have liked Katabasis by R.F. Kuang?

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

This year the newsletter is a patchwork project, a once-a-month, freewheeling reflection and projection. Read if you’re interested! open.substack.com/pub/theredra...

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Thank you Avery for your insightful responses! 💕

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Christine Emba's undaunted critique of the porn industry (and our reluctance to condemn it) is definitely worth the read. The Delusion of Porn’s Harmlessness www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...

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Opinion | The Delusion of Porn’s Harmlessness

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

my notion library is the only thing keeping me going

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I didn’t realize how common power outages were in my life until I moved to Japan and they ceased to occur. What’s the difference? Sheer number of lines?

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

not including four in progress those four being: Europe and the People Without History The Return of the King The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea L'Etranger goal for april - to hit 20 books! why not!

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

so much Japanese literature seems to thrive on the acknowledgment (and thus deconstruction) of these 'widely-held assumptions' - love to see it expressed so elegantly here

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

why are all of your ~intellectual faves~ hot?

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

how are you guys posting every day

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Making plans making moves !!!!! Also switching my posting day to Thursday because Mondays are proving lethal 🫡

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I've updated my Carrd, so here it is for all—a little digital collection of my latest writings, my socials, and myself! bellacreel.carrd.co

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Bella Creel's Carrd

Resume of a photographer, literary critic, and editor.

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This post also features one of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken - look at this little wood dragon, taken in the year of the wood dragon!!! 🐉🌳

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

⭐︎ new post!! ⭐︎ Did you walk in the woods as a child? A post on luck, intent, and twinkling memories. And a small goodbye to the year of the dragon 🐉♡ #photography #writing open.substack.com/pub/theredra...

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

self-published writers with AI book covers 🤮🤮 pls be so fr

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

a little odd! a little reflective! a little bit a lot of me! substack.com/@bellacreel/... #writing #poetry #photography

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

⭐︎2025 reading progress⭐︎ ② five stars: YOUR UTOPIA by Bora Chung in Anton Hur’s translation, and THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula K Le Guin I’ll have mini reviews/reflections up on Substack at the end of the month~ Aiming to finish two or three more before then 💙📚

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

do any other women feel really weird about how our ova were there at birth or is that just me.

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

getting oddly romantic in the rough draft tonight lads #writing #translation #wip

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

join me on a trip to Ikoma in Nara Prefecture, home to a 1,360 year old temple, Japan’s oldest cable car, and thirsty temple cats 💙📚 #writing #japan #photography #travel theredraft.substack.com/p/a-quiet-te...

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

医者に「耳が炎症している」じゃなくて「炎上している」って告げてしまった

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Stephanie @bookfrolic.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I'm online for the next while & am updating my Book Reviewers Starter Pack! To make it useful, I'm only adding mutuals who are active so if we’re friends here & you review on a website/blog, podcast, IG, TikTok, (tell me where!) etc, & want to be included, let me know! go.bsky.app/EnNqXQp

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

a quick post on beginnings, anxiety, and doing it anyways ☆ open.substack.com/pub/theredra... #substack #writing #photography

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Cold Feet

On starting something new.

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This week on the Asymptote blog: my dispatch on @readjapaneselit.bsky.social's 31 days of Japanese short stories in translation, alongside dispatches from Palestine and liminal airports in France and Ireland💙📚 Excited to keep up with the challenge! www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/01...

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Weekly Dispatches From the Frontlines of World Literature - Asymptote Blog

Literary updates from Japan, Palestine, and airports in Ireland and France.

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Happy new year from the first sunrise in Japan 🌅 あけましておめでとうございます〜

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

why does it feel like every other driver in Japan is trying to crash into me all the time

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

it was a red and orange christmas this year✨

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Announcing our most-read pieces of 2024! These ten essays, reviews, and interviews roam widely across the cultural and political landscape, shedding new light on crucial subjects that will continue to preoccupy us in 2025 and beyond. buff.ly/41E6N9c

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I recently interviewed translator Helen O’Horan about Izumi Suzuki’s Set My Heart on Fire, authenticity and performance in art, and Suzuki’s interest in the carnal, in sex and in violence. Read the whole interview below 💬 www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/12... #booksky #translation #japaneselit

Cover of Set My Heart on Fire by Izumi Suzuki

In conversation with Helen O'Horan, translator of Set My Heart on Fire:
"Suzuki often described herself as 'living in drag,' constantly performing a character. Being a countercultural figure or an 'it girl' wasn't accidental; it was part of her artistry."

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

No but genuinely Woolf knew what she was Doing with these semi colons and all caps and apostrophes and shit

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

January 2025 of my Substack "Glimpses" is drafted! So excited, but December is just as much about patience as it is preparation ☆ bellacreel.substack.com All original photography ✌︎ #writesky #booksky #litsky #photography

Cold Feet: On starting something new. Available January 6, 2025.

A quiet temple: On mornings and mountains. Available January 13, 2025.

Overgrowth: On roots and rot. Available January 20, 2025.

Dragons and snakes: On luck and intention. Available January 6, 2025.

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

revisiting NAMES AND RIVERS by Shuri Kido, translated by Tomoyuki Endo and Forrest Gander as I write for my substack today

The poetry collection NAMES AND RIVERS is in focus, open to a poem called “Ritual Utensils.” The original Japanese can be seen to the left. Behind the book is a computer open to a word document.

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bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

third sky post of the day and it’s not even 7:30

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