Orrie hitt biography sample

  • Orrie Hitt (October 27, 1916 – December 8, 1975) was a prolific American author of over 150 books, mostly mid-century erotica, but including some crime novels.
  • Some Orrie Hitt Biography — Brian Ritt's “The Sleazy Side of the Street”.
  • It's actually a semi-autobiographical yarn narrated by one Chet Long, a prolific author of what he refers to as “realistic” novels.

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    Reprinted from a May 29, 2009 blog post on James Reasoner’s Rough Edges, providing some interesting and curious facts about the noir poet of sleazecore.

    THE SLEAZY SIDE OF THE STREET
    by Brian Ritt

    Grab your coat and get your hat
    Leave your worries on the doorstep
    Life can be so sweet
    On the sunny side of the street
    —On The Sunny Side of the Street
    (McHugh/Fields)

    Orrie Hitt wrote about low-rent people in low-rent places.

    His men were rotten to the core, as bad as they come, lust prowlers, promoters, cheaters, suckers, pushovers, and Peeping Tom’s. Their names were Dutch, Arch, Rip, Brick, Buck, Shad, Slade, Big Mike, Clint Crown, Johnny Vandal, and Jerry Slink. They dreamed and schemed, manipulated and manhandled.

    Meet one of Hitt’s men: “He was a big man, a couple of inches over 6 feet, and he weighed 180 pounds. None of his weightwas fat. He was all raw muscle and bone with broad shoulders and close cut sandy hair. As for being handsome

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    The FictionMags Index

    Index by Name: Page 4974

    Previous — Name Index — Table-of-Contents
      []Holland, Joyce (1950- ) (chron.)
      • * Backtrack, (ss) The Cozy Detective Mystery Magazine Fall 1998
      • * The Case of the Lost Lover, (vi) Futures #9, June/July 1999
      • * Eva’s Eyes, (ss) Blondes in Trouble ed. Serita Stevens, Intrigue Press, 2004
      • * Figment, (sl) Futures #13 Feb/Mar, #14 Apr/May, #15 Jun/Jul, #16 Aug/Sep, #17 Oct/Nov, #18 Dec/Jan 2000
      • * Long John Jones, (pm) Murderous Intent Spring 1999
      • * The Mysterious Case of Champagne, (ss) Murderous Intent Winter 1998
      • * The Perils of Paula, (ss) Murderous Intent Summer/Fall 1998
      • * Pretty Kitty, (vi) Murderous Intent Winter 1998
      • * [cartoon(s)], (ct) Futures #11, October/November 1999
      []Holland, Marty; pseudonym of Mary Holland (1919-1971) (chron.)
      • * D.O.A.—East River, (ss) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine March 1944
      • * The Glass Heart, (n.) Julian Messner
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        The SFFaudio Podcast #733 – AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: Nudist Camp bygd Orrie Hitt


        The SFFaudio Podcast #733 – Nudist Camp bygd Orrie Hitt – read by Evan Lampe. This is a complete and unabridged reading of the novel (4 hours 21 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants include Jesse and Evan Lampe.

        Talked about on today’s show:
        1957, paperback original, Evan’s falsetto, a fun one to read, an interesting guy, 150 or so books, mostly public domain, disposable, available to read, available to be narrated, title wise, Never Cheat Alone, Torrid Wench, each was easy pickins, lovers kissin, brott novel adjacent, “sleazecore”, a science fiction novel but the genre is different, stupid-interesting entertainment, an adult at the time, the drug store, the spinner rack, behind the counter?, well written, fluffy, the plot makes sense, fetish for sex, ideas in my science fiction, talking about the fins on rocketships, fetish books for men, romance nov