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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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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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June 20, 2019An Open Letter to Parents Being Harangued to Remember Yet Another Username and Password By Signing Up for the Library Summer Reading Program
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May 30, 2019An Open Letter to Everyone Sharing Their Wisdom About How to Cure My Depression
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March 15, 2019An Open Letter to My Family Announcing My Resignation from Motherhood
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March 7, 2019An Open Break-Up Letter to Estrogen
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February 26, 2019An Open Letter to People Who Call Me “Sir”
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January 15, 2019An Open Letter to the Mathematical Community
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October 23, 2020
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October 9, 2020The 52 Stages of Insomnia
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May 18, 2020I Was In Charge of the Deck Chairs On the Titanic, and They Absolutely Did Need Rearranging
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October 23, 2020Cutting Edge Reforms for the Supreme Court
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October 23, 2020
For the Voter Who Can’t Decide Between Joe Biden and a Third-Party Candidate Who Much More Accurately Represents Their Values and Desires for This Country and the World