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Book Review: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig

9.26.2022
Sam Woolfe
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When we don’t know a word, we look it up in the dictionary.

6.1.2022
Link BCIT Magazine
Interview

Author Talks: The made-up words that make our world

1.26.2022
McKinsey & Company
Interview

Bookforum Talks with John Koenig About Defining Obscure Emotions and Experiences

1.18.2022
Bookforum
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig review – fifty shades of sad

1.5.2022
The Guardian
Interview

A Minneapolis writer invents new words to help us process our collective malaise

12.30.2021
MPR News
Review

Can’t name that feeling? Try consulting ‘The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows’

11.30.2021
The Washington Post
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‘The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows’ Book by John Koenig

11.6.2021
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Audio

John Koenig: What If There Were A Word For Every Emotion In The World?

3.9.2018
NPR
Interview

Creating new words for obscure emotions

3.29.2017
Radio New Zealand
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