Clever and just the right amount of snide, Dear Committee Members is the perfect stress relief for job related low spirits. A letter of recommendation is a gift to students and a curse to many a professor. Schumacher manages to turn this oft bemoaned aspect of professorial life into comedic play and turns the epistolary form on its head. As her character Jason Fitger bemoans his writing career and romantic foibles, his frustration ekes out in the droll letters that make up this delightful book’s core.