Overqualified (novel)

Overqualified
Author(s)	Joey Comeau
Country	Canada
Language	English
Subject(s)	cover letters
Publisher	ECW Press
Publication date	2009
Media type	print
Pages	144 pp
ISBN	1550228587
OCLC Number	262886033
Preceded by	It's Too Late To Say I'm Sorry (2007)

Overqualified is an art project by Canadian writer Joey Comeau in which he wrote a series of cover letters as job applications to companies. The letters were collected into a novel and published as Overqualified by ECW Press in 2009. The letters all start off as standard cover letters, but quickly turn very dark, and almost inevitably reveal the author to be mentally unstable. Excerpts from the book were included in the 2010 Best American Nonrequired Reading.

References

• Schaub, Michael (October 2009). "Overqualified". Bookslut. http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2009_10_015214.php. Retrieved October 6, 2009. 
• Bethune, Brian (March 2009). "Overqualified". Macleans. http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/03/24/read-this-book-overqualified-by-joey-comeau/. Retrieved April 5, 2009. 
• Kellogg, Carolyn (March 2009). "Overqualified". LA Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/03/overqualified.html. Retrieved March 19, 2009. 
• Code, Devon (March 2009). "Overqualified". Quill and Quire. http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=6441. Retrieved March 10, 2009. 
• Davis, Brian Joseph (February 25, 2009). "Overqualified". Eye Weekly. http://www.eyeweekly.com/arts/features/article/53010. Retrieved March 10, 2009. 
• Urbina, Ian (2005). Life's Little Annoyances. Times Books. p. 54. ISBN 978-0805080308. 

External links

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