McSWEENEY'S INTERNET TENDENCY'S PATREON
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Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond
Send your nonfictional open letters to openletters@mcsweeneys.net.
(Submission guidelines)
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July 15, 2020An Open Letter to My Friend That Fled New York for His Parents’ House
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July 7, 2020An Open Letter to Straight Couples Who Have Been Quarantining Together After Only Dating For a Few Weeks From a Lesbian Who’s Been There Before
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June 18, 2020An Open Letter to the Class of 2020 From a Dad Who Deserves Sympathy Too
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June 16, 2020An Open Letter to the College Roommate I’ve Barely Spoken to Since Freshman Year Who Keeps Referring to Me as His Black Friend
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June 10, 2020An Open Letter to the Expression “I Can’t Even”
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January 27, 2020An Open Letter to Preschool Homework
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November 4, 2019An Open Letter to My Dead Grandmother, Who Last June Started to Build a Bird Sanctuary In the Front Yard, But Who Then, Last July, Died, Leaving Us a Dry, Patchy Landing Strip of Horticultural Nonsense, and a Dream
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October 22, 2019An Open Plea to My Instagram Acquaintance
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September 4, 2019An Open Letter to Great Britain About How Brexit Is Killing My Boaty McBoatface Buzz
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August 30, 2019An Open Letter to People Who Say “Summer’s Not Over Yet!”
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August 26, 2019An Open Letter to My School District’s Second Grade Teachers Regarding Their School Supplies List
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August 22, 2019An Open Letter to the Man Who Yelled “Go Back to Africa” At Me
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