''Overqualified'' is an art project by Canadian writer Joey Comeau in which he wrote a series of

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s to companies. The letters were collected into a book 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 ''

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Overqualified
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