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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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June 14, 2018An Open Letter to My Dad, Post-Cremation, Concerning His Missing Gold Teeth
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June 6, 2018An Open Letter to White Women Concerning The Handmaid’s Tale and America’s Cultural Amnesia
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May 3, 2018An Open Letter to the Racist Who Saw My Truth When My Liberal Friends Didn’t See My Color
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April 23, 2018An Open Letter to People Who Don’t Make Every Conceivable Effort to Ensure that the Bathroom Door is Locked
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April 13, 2018An Open Letter to Those Who Want to Liberate Me From Wearing My Hijab
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April 10, 2018An Open Letter to Finland’s President Sauli Niinistö
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March 29, 2018An Open Letter to Collegiate Basketball Benchwarmers
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March 7, 2018An Open Letter to the Guy Who Didn’t Believe My Ethnicity Even Though It Was None of His Business
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March 2, 2018An Open Letter to Greta Gerwig About How Her Film, Lady Bird, Passed the Bechdel Test Way Too Many Times
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February 23, 2018An Open Letter to the Phrase “Positive Vibes Only”
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February 19, 2018An Open Letter to James Madison About His Drafting of the Second Amendment
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January 22, 2018An Open Letter of Thanks to the Men Who Tell Me Who Paul Thomas Anderson Is
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March 26, 2021An Excerpt from My New Anxiety Dream Where I’m Blocking the Suez Canal
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March 22, 2021Job Posting: Assistant Professor of Robotics and Animal Husbandry with a Specialization in Dance
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April 2, 2021The Party of Family Values Would Like to Expand the Definition of “Family” and Also of “Values”
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January 5, 2015Reasons You Were Not Promoted That Are Totally Unrelated to Gender
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April 9, 2021An Open Letter to My Children Regarding the Commencement of Asynchronous Parenting
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April 9, 2021The Five Stages of Grief When Dealing With No Longer Being Able to See the “Scoop, There It Is” Geico Commercial
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April 9, 2021For Your Return to the Office, We’ve Added Three Rooms for Guttural Screaming
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April 8, 2021The Hallmark Channel Presents: Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”