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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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  • October 3, 2014
    Open Letter: An Open Letter to Vogue Magazine About Big Booties
    by Stephanie Slinkard
  • September 26, 2014
    Open Letter: An Open Letter to a Traveling Salesman, Sugar Camp, Wisconsin, Circa 1996
    by Anna Vodicka
  • August 29, 2014
    Open Letter: An Open Letter to My Late Paternal Grandfather
    by Katherine Kubler
  • August 22, 2014
    Open Letter: An Open Letter to the Passing Motorist Who Suggested I Take a Photograph of His Dick
    by Cirrus Robert Wood
  • July 31, 2014
    Open Letter: An Open Letter to Busta Rhymes
    by Mike Levine
  • July 25, 2014
    Open Letter: An Open Letter to the People Who Decide Which Women’s Apparel Catalogs to Send Me
    by Hana Schank
  • July 18, 2014
    Open Letter: An Open Letter to Myself When I Had Seven Cats
    by Jen Bingham
  • June 27, 2014
    Open Letter: An Open Letter to Balding Men from a Bald Man
    by Keith Plocek
  • June 6, 2014
    Open Letter: An Open Letter to the Songwriters of “Let It Go.”
    by Stephen Ornes
  • May 23, 2014
    Open Letter: An Open Letter to the Former Owner of Our House
    by Katherine Heiny
  • May 2, 2014
    Open Letter: An Open Letter to Your Unreadable Hashtag
    by Elizabeth Ann Entenman
  • March 24, 2014
    Open Letter: An Open Letter to My Ex-Fiancé About My Recent Arm Amputation
    by Amalie Brettschneider
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