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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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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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December 11, 2018An Open Letter to Gift-Givers of Noise-Making Toys
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August 7, 2018An Open Letter to the Owner of the Car With the “LOUDER THAN YOUR MOM WAS LAST NIGHT” License Plate Frame Parked at the Portland International Airport
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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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