Falling Off the Catwalk  ISBN: 978-0-9794241-1-3

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An evangelical Christian comes to terms with his gayness by becoming an international male fashion model. In the mid-90s Robert has a seemingly ideal life: a secure corporate job, a string of pretty girlfriends, and a condo in a SoCal beach town. Conflict between this outward success and his inner turmoil prompts him, at 29, to run away to Europe. Set during a slip from sobriety that eventually becomes an eight-year fall, Falling Off the Catwalk recounts a year and a half of global debauchery: sex with girls, sex with boys, acid trips and absinthe in Tokyo.

Robert repeatedly discovers and then forgets what the journey is all about. In the process the question of what he is running from becomes just as pronounced as what he thinks he is moving towards. All of this against a backdrop of runway shows for Hugo Boss and Fendi, appearances in GQ and French Cosmopolitan, partying with models in Milan, and clubbing in Paris and Madrid.

Robert overcomes the memory loss associated with addiction and revolutionizes the contemporary memoir by emphasizing primary sources (his extensive journals, correspondences, audio and video tapes) in constructing the narrative. The text is accompanied by Robert’s fashion photographs and complimented by video clips online HERE.

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Before I Lose My Style ISBN: 978-0-9794241-5-1

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Before I Lose My Style is a playful but melancholy meditation on the various ways sex and love can be integrated into our lives. Damon, a scientist in his early thirties, finds himself unexpectedly single after his longtime boyfriend leaves him. He is content with transient hookups in the LA club scene to fill the void, until a charming musician from Budapest and a sexually ambiguous basic-cable celebrity complicate his frisky bachelorhood. From nude beaches in Santa Barbara to house parties in West Hollywood, to drag clubs in Silver Lake, Damon and his intimate group of friends endure petty blowups and disagreements. Damon is finally left to reconsider the importance of romance and friendship.

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Death of a Past Life ISBN: 978-0-9794241-0-6

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Three generations face the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century--the turmoil of the Russian Revolution, the vicious arbitrariness of Stalin's purges, mass famine during the Siege of Leningrad, the bombing of Berlin during the Nazi's final days--and relentlessly fight to insure the survival of their family.

Robert Reincke bases his historical novel on the reminiscences of both his mother and his centenarian grandmother. His own family history is thoroughly investigated and transformed in this imaginative work that allows us to glimpse what it was like to live through events we read about in history books.

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