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Larissa Pham
Writing Toward the Void: Larissa Pham on Facing Your Fears in Fiction
“Whenever I felt stuck in the writing, I looked to the most unknown corner and asked: What if?”
By
Larissa Pham
| January 20, 2026
A Fantasy of Domesticity: Why We’re Drawn to the False Promise of the Tradwife
Larissa Pham on Baking, Community and Navigating Societal Expectations of Heteronormativity
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Larissa Pham
| February 12, 2025
The Names of Things: Larissa Pham on Nature Walks and the Grammar of Animacy
When I’m Not Writing
, a Series About Writers and Their Hobbies
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Larissa Pham
| January 12, 2023
Larissa Pham on Allowing Memory to Shape a Memoir
"I don’t believe life is narrative."
By
Larissa Pham
| August 6, 2021
The Bottomless Generosity of the Writer's Memoir
On Alexander Chee, Leslie Jamison, and Writing About Writing
By
Larissa Pham
| April 18, 2018
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