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Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond
Send your nonfictional open letters to openletters@mcsweeneys.net.
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April 18, 2022An Open Letter to College Students Who Don’t Read the Syllabus
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April 7, 2022Open Letter to the Drivers of Uptown Manhattan Who Honk as My Son Gets on His School Bus
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October 27, 2021An Open Letter to Tiffany & Co. About Their Advertising Campaign for the Ring That Helps Women Remember They Survived Cancer
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October 13, 2021Open Letter to Paul Simon on His Misleading Song “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”
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August 18, 2021An Open Letter to the Architect Who Invented Open-Concept Floor Plans
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August 3, 2021An Open Letter to My Thirty-Plus-Year-Old Ovaries
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July 23, 2021An Open Letter to the #OWNVOICES Movement
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July 14, 2021Dear HR: What Skin Color Emoji Am I Supposed to Use?
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June 22, 2021An Open Letter to My Straight Co-worker Who Was Visibly Uncomfortable When I Stood at the Urinal Next to Him
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June 15, 2021An Open Letter to My Child’s Overnight Camp About the Things I Didn’t Have Room to Include in the “Anything Else We Should Know About Your Child?” Section of the Registration Form
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May 20, 2021An Open Letter to Sleep: We Need to Talk
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April 9, 2021An Open Letter to My Children Regarding the Commencement of Asynchronous Parenting
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September 15, 2023Son, You’re Old Enough to Know the Truth, There is No Such Thing as the “Invisible Hand of the Market”
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