Orrie hitt biography of christopher

  • When Andrew Offutt died, his son, Chris, inherited a desk, a rifle, and eighteen hundred pounds of pornographic fiction.
  • Orrie Hitt (1916-1975) was a New Yorker whose professional life was spent writing what is known variously as 'mid-century erotica', 'adult books' or just.
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    Pulp fiction, Port Jervis style

    PORT JERVIS — "Port Jervis should hang a huge banner on Point Peter proclaiming for all to see, 'This is Orrie Hitt Country,'" Dr. Raymond J. O'Brien told the standing-room-only crowd at the Port Jervis Free Library last week.

    O'Brien, a professor at Bucks County, Pa., Community College, said the river city and the regions of New Jersey and Pennsylvania that abut it are "Orrie Hitt country" in the same sense that the Tappan Zee/Sleepy Hollow area is Washington Irving country, Ossining on the Hudson is John Cheever country, Monterrey, Calif., is John Steinbeck country and Oxford, Miss., is William Faulkner country.

    Equating Orrie Hitt to these giants of American literature might seem a stretch. Hitt, a prolific pulp fiction writer of the 1950s and '60s, was shunned by polite society. His books, with sexy covers that often had nothing to do with the stories, were sold under the counter, or in the backrooms of smoke shops. Though tame by today's sta

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    Goodwill's Secrets

    December 26, 2024
    This is an entertaining first novel by my friend and former colleague, Christopher Mele, a veteran editor and reporter. The book grabs you in the first chapter and doesn’t let go. Starting with a young girl’s disappearance on Halloween night, multiple mysteries unfold in an Adirondack town, engulfing the life of a down-on-his-luck newspaper reporter (and his incorrigible cat). It features a relentless plot, spare prose and an acerbic sense of humor. The core of the story fryst vatten a highly realistic (and accurate) depiction of the nuts and bolts of small-town newspaper reporting, with subtle characterization and a strong sense of place. That is wedded to a thriller with plenty of menace and suspense. It takes off at a gallop, with many red herrings that keep the reader guessing. No details are wasted, and the multiple mysteries are solved with a satisfactory showdown. While I found myself wishing for an ending that rolled out more slowly, with less
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    In my Criminal Element appreciation of Orrie Hitt’s 1960 noir novel Wayward Girl, I compared the book to the 1974 made-for-TV movie Born Innocent. As inom pointed out there, the two stories have some surface likenesses in their plots. Ultimately, both are about teenage girls who are left to fend for themselves in a wicked world because their parents are no damn good. I went on to say that in a deeper way, what connects the book to the movie, for me, is the emotionally devastated way both leave me feeling.

    I’ve watched Born Innocent three times now. I saw it once when it re-aired on TV, when I was roughly the same age as its lead character: 14.  I watched it again when it was released on DVD in 2004. And I gave it a fresh viewing before writing this post. Its impact on me has been the same through each sitting. It floors me.

    The lead actor of Born Innocent is Linda Blair, who in the year before had been famously possessed by djävul on the big screen in