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Writing Toward the Void: Larissa Pham on Facing Your Fears in Fiction

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

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

By Larissa Pham | February 12, 2025

The Names of Things: Larissa Pham on Nature Walks and the Grammar of Animacy

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

By Larissa Pham | January 12, 2023

Larissa Pham on Allowing Memory to Shape a Memoir

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

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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