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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 10, 2018

An Open Letter to the Box of Loose Cables in My Closet

by Adam Chardis
December 7, 2017

An Open Letter to My Husband Regarding Our Family Holiday Cards

by Veronica McCarthy
November 14, 2017

An Open Letter to the Person on the Internet Who Likes Fighting With Me

by Shya Gibbons
November 3, 2017

An Open Letter of Thanks to My Absentee Students

by David Andrew Stoler
November 2, 2017

An Open Letter to White People in Need of a Token Brown Person

by Anjali Enjeti
October 9, 2017

An Open Letter to My Newly Diagnosed Autistic Son

by Shannon Frost Greenstein
September 6, 2017

An Open Letter to Postmodernism

by Fahad Rahmat
August 24, 2017

An Open Letter to the Photographer at My Kids’ Summer Camp

by Gary Rudoren
August 21, 2017

An Open Letter to the Lady Selling Seashells By the Seashore

by Thatcher Jensen
July 26, 2017

An Open Letter to the Time Traveler Who Keeps Making President Trump Look Like a Liar

by Mark Joslyn
June 13, 2017

Open Letter to the Old White Men I Encountered at the Minimum Wage Texas Barbecue Job I Had During My First Year of Grad School

by Meaghan Loraas
May 24, 2017

An Open Letter to My Online Student

by Peyton Burgess

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