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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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January 17, 2018An Open Letter to My Thirty-Five-Year-Old Guy Friends Who Date Twenty-Four Year-Olds and Complain to Me About It
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January 10, 2018An Open Letter to the Box of Loose Cables in My Closet
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December 7, 2017An Open Letter to My Husband Regarding Our Family Holiday Cards
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November 14, 2017An Open Letter to the Person on the Internet Who Likes Fighting With Me
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November 3, 2017An Open Letter of Thanks to My Absentee Students
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November 2, 2017An Open Letter to White People in Need of a Token Brown Person
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October 9, 2017An Open Letter to My Newly Diagnosed Autistic Son
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September 6, 2017An Open Letter to Postmodernism
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August 24, 2017An Open Letter to the Photographer at My Kids’ Summer Camp
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August 21, 2017An Open Letter to the Lady Selling Seashells By the Seashore
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July 26, 2017An Open Letter to the Time Traveler Who Keeps Making President Trump Look Like a Liar
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June 13, 2017Open Letter to the Old White Men I Encountered at the Minimum Wage Texas Barbecue Job I Had During My First Year of Grad School
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May 18, 2022A Passenger’s One-Star Review of the Trolley Ride from the Trolley Problem
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November 13, 2018If People Talked to Other Professionals the Way They Talk to Teachers
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May 13, 2022A Modest Proposal for Solving the Baby Formula Shortage
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