The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) features “A Conceptual Circus” by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton
Kenneth Jarrett Singleton’s inviting read, “A Conceptual Circus,” was featured in the November issue of The New York Times Book Review.
Current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed in The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR), a weekly paper magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times (an American daily newspaper with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to be a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers). It is one of the most well-known and significant book reviews in the business.
Kenneth Jarrett Singleton is a thirty-four-year-old poet, playwright, and author. Prior to this book of poetry, Singleton had five books published. His first book was a science-fiction/horror novel called The Cadaver Factory. It received publication in 2004 when he was twenty years old. His second novel, The Donner Society, was published in 2005, the same year as his first play, Angelica and Francesca.
Singleton’s first book of poetry, Exotic Neurotic, was released in 2016. Following Exotic Neurotic, his second play, Nicu II and Victoria’s Incestuous Romance was released the next year. Singleton currently resides in the state of West Virginia.
“A Conceptual Circus” is highly commended by Barbara Bamberger Scott of the US Review of Books, recognizing that “yet despite some of these dark delvings, Singleton is also quite prepared to portray certain individuals with satisfying empathy, like “Jan the Janitor”: “She’s accepted her destiny. The shine produced by mopping.” “Freakshow Martyr” describes the harsh existence of the carnival freak show denizen who must listen to those speaking coldly about him who have no idea of his inner sensitivities.”
Furthermore, the author is praised by the US Review of Books, which highlights that:
“Singleton, who has written other poetic works along with plays and books, focuses in this latest aggregation on difference, discouragement, and the great distance and distress that can so often afflict one’s reality. He is never at a loss for words, some quite complex and a few invented, encompassing enjoyable rhymes. His powerful paean to “A Codependent Romance” reveals a scenario many may recognize—the frustrations and rewards of building a trusting relationship that ultimately, as he styles it, “could not have occurred in any greater form.” One suspects that Singleton’s works are meant to baffle and equally suggest solutions to many of life’s more distressing puzzles. He creates a circus constantly in motion, inviting readers to keep their perceptions in a heightened state so that nothing essential to life’s panorama will go unnoticed.”
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