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Ursula Villarreal-Moura On Reckoning With Art and Ethics in “Like Happiness”

Ursula Villarreal-Moura

The work of Ursula Villarreal-Moura abounds with appealing qualities, from formal innovation to a penchant for reckoning with big ethical questions. Her debut novel Like Happiness tells the story of Tatum, a young woman who forms a connection with a writer she’s long admired — and later comes to question certain things she’d long taken for granted about that relationship. I talked with Villarreal-Moura about the genesis of that novel, writing about feeling at home, and finding the right structure to tell this story.

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Sunday Stories: “Pesto”

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Pesto
by Selen Ozturk

I’m mashing garlic, lemon, pine nuts, salt, pepper, parmesan, olive oil and basil because my husband is going toothless and this is something he can eat, earthy paste. And the backyard is a cramped lot tufted here and there with basil, and weeds in the years since he stopped remembering to water. My husband is not only losing his teeth but his memory, but he can gum at pesto.

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