The Believer Magazine
Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond
Send your nonfictional open letters to openletters@mcsweeneys.net.
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August 11, 2009An Open Letter to One of the IT Contractors at Work
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July 10, 2009An Open Letter to HBO Re: It’s New Television Show Hung
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June 26, 2009An Open Letter to My Unborn Daughter
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January 4, 2009An Open Letter to J.J. Abrams Re: Lack of Fat People in Star Trek
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October 22, 2008An Open Letter to Jonelle, Who Sent a Three-Song Radio Dedication to Her Boyfriend, Rob
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August 8, 2008An Open Letter to the Burglar of 244 Wicker Avenue
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March 13, 2008An Open Letter to Shirley MacLaine From a Former 11-Year-Old Who Was Sent to Her Apartment by George McGovern’s Presidential Campaign in 1972
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November 4, 2007An Open Letter to My Across-the-Street Neighbor Who Always Does His Yard Work in His Scrubs
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September 18, 2007An Open Letter to American Express
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August 7, 2007An Open Letter to the Intestinal Parasites I Managed to Pick Up in West Africa This Summer
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June 28, 2007An Open Letter to Cambridge University Press, Regarding Odor
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February 19, 2007An Open Letter to My Local Newspaper With Advice for When It Runs Its Next Two-Page Photo Spread on the Beautiful Colors of the Season
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