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Book review — The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

5.18.2025
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Likely Stories - The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig

5.8.2025
Waco Public Radio
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John Koenig’s ’06 “Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows”

4.25.2025
The Mac Weekly
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Book Review: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

9.2.2024
Minnesota Society for Clinical Social Work
Review

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name

4.12.2024
The Marginalian
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Book Review: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig

9.26.2022
Sam Woolfe
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Book Review – The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig

8.8.2022
Music with Me Blog
Review

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
Review

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
Review

‘The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows’ Book by John Koenig

11.6.2021
Tools & Toys
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