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“Creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have.”
                — John Green, author of The Fault in Our StarsThe Book - NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER!
It's finally here. 12 years in the making, 300 pages, 70% new material, including longer video-like definitions, otherworldly illustrations, and some thoughts on language and the meaning of life.  
Pre-order your copy here (click links on the right):  https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Dictionary-of-Obscure-Sorrows/John-Koenig/9781501153648Coming November 16, 2021 from Simon & Schuster. The AuthorJohn Koenig is a video maker, graphic designer, and voiceover artist from Minnesota, who lives in Minneapolis with his wife and daughter. His work has been acclaimed by New York Magazine, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post,  and the guys from Radiolab.Feel free to write me directly and describe an emotion you need a word for:

    ▸   Email the author at obscuresorrows@gmail.com     ▸   Visit the Facebook page     ▸   Follow on Twitter     ▸   Ask on TumblrThe YouTube SeriesWritten, edited, coined and narrated by John Koenig.InquiriesCopyright © John Koenig 2009-2021. For permissions, inquiries and media requests:     ▸   Email the author at obscuresorrows@gmail.com.
						
						
							n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.video: sonder: everyone has a story
						
					
					
					
					
					
				
				
				
					
					
					
					
					
					
					
					
					
					
					
					
					
					
					
					
					
					
					
					
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