Book #1 of “The Noir Series,” Life Noir is a deeply-personal memoir which explores the heart-wrenching world of sex addiction, sexual abuse, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, repentance, redemption, and forgiveness.  It chronicles the author’s troubled life journey leading to his ultimate downfall in January 2010: The four-week relationship Kurt had with a former student while teaching high school English. This memoir reaches back twenty years — chronicling Kurt’s battles with himself, his many struggles, his few triumphs — searching deep within himself, trying to find the nexus of his own villainy — desperately seeking a new and better way to live his life, even when facing the looming certainty of prison.

“It’s easier to be the villain in life
than it is to be the hero.”
–Life Noir

Published by Black Rose Writing — 2018
Rereleased by Infinity Art Media — 2020