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Bruce Benderson (born August 6, 1946) is an American author who lives in New York. Events 1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous He was a contemporary of Camille Paglia at William Nottingham High School (1964) in Syracuse, New York and then Binghamton University (1968). Camille Anna Paglia (born 2 April 1947 in Endicott New York) is an American Author, Teacher, Feminist and Social critic Syracuse (locally ˈsɛrəkjuːs sometimes ˈsɪrəkjuːs or /ˈsɪərəkjuːs/ by non-natives is a city in Central New York, USA. The State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY Binghamton or Binghamton University is one of the four university centers in New York State’s system of He is today a novelist, essayist, journalist and translator, widely published in France, less so in the United States. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the His book-length essay, Toward the New Degeneracy (1997), looks at New York’s Times Square, where rich and poor once mixed in a lively atmosphere of drugs, sex, and commerce. Times Square is a major intersection in Manhattan, New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West Benderson argues that this kind of mingling of classes has been the source of many modern avant-garde movements, and he laments the disappearance of that particular milieu. His novel User (1994) is a lyrical descent into the world of junkies and male hustlers. A gigolo, hustler or male prostitute is a male who engages in the sale of their sexual services by Prostitution. He is also the author of James Bidgood (Taschen, 1999), about the maker of the cult film Pink Narcissus. Pink Narcissus is a 1971 Drama film by James Bidgood visualizing the erotic fantasies of a Gay man Benderson has been published in Between C & D, 3:AM Magazine, American Letters and Commentary, Men on Men and Flesh and the Word. Between C & D ( 1983 - 1990) was a Lower East Side quarterly literary magazine edited by Joel Rose and Catherine Texier. 3AM Magazine was set up as 3ammagazinecom in April 2000 and is edited from Paris. He is also a journalist who has written on squatters for the New York Times Magazine, boxing for the Village Voice, unusual shelters for nest, and film and books and for various publications, including Out, The Stranger, New York Press, BlackBook magazine, and Paper. The New York Times Magazine is a supplement to the Sunday The New York Times newspaper This article is about a New York newspaper For the Ottawa Hills Ohio magazine see The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills. Out ( is a popular Gay men 's Fashion, Entertainment, and Lifestyle Magazine, with the highest circulation of any gay monthly The Stranger is an Alternative weekly newspaper in Seattle Washington, USA noted for its Social commentary, Political opinion New York Press is a free Alternative weekly in New York City. BlackBook magazine is a US publication It features photographs and articles geared toward Fashion, design and progressive culture He has translated several books of French origin, including Virginie Despentes' novel Baise Moi (which was later adapated into a controversial film); the writers Robbe-Grillet, Pierre Guyotat, Sollers, Benoit Duteurtre and Nelly Arcan; and, though it is quite far away from his usual subject matter, the autobiography of Celine Dion. Virginie Despentes is a French novelist and filmmaker born June 13 1969 in Nancy, France. Baise-moi is a novel by French author Virginie Despentes, first published in 1999. Alain Robbe-Grillet (French alɛ̃ ʁɔb gʁiˈje (August 18 1922 &ndash February 18 2008 was a French Writer Pierre Guyotat is a French writer He was born in 1940 at Bourg-Argental. Philippe Sollers (born Philippe Joyaux 28 November 1936, Bordeaux, France) is a French writer and critic Céline Marie Claudette Dion ( OC OQ (born March 30 1968 in Charlemagne Quebec) is a Canadian pop Singer In 2007, his translation of Tony Duvert's "Le bon sexe illustré" (Good Sex Illustrated) was released by Semiotext(e). Semiotext(e is an American independent Publisher. It is widely credited for having introduced so-called " French Theory " to North America through its magazine A second book by Duvert he has translated will be released by the same publisher in 2008.

In 2004, Benderson's lengthy erotic memoir Autobiographie erotique, about a nine-month sojourn in Romania, won the prestigious French literary prize, the Prix de Flore. The book was published in the United States (Tarcher/Penguin) and the United Kingdom (Snow Books) in 2006 under the title The Romanian: Story of an Obsession. The Romanian Story of an Obsession is a novel by Bruce Benderson. A book-length essay, "Sexe et Solitude," about the extinction of urban space and the rise of the Internet, was published in French in 1999. A collection of essays, published under the title "Attitudes," appeared in French in 2006. These essays, along with "Sexe et Solitude" and "Toward the New Degeneracy," were printed in America in a nonfiction anthology of Benderson's writings entitled "Sex and Isolation" (U. of Wisconsin Press, 2007, which was cited as one of the 10 best university press books of the year by the magazine "Foreword. " The year 2007 also saw the publication in French (Editions Payot & Rivages) of a new novel by Benderson called "Pacific Agony," a caustic satire of life in America's Pacific Northwest. That same year, Benderson's personal illustrated encyclopedia of the 60s and 70s, "Concentré de contreculture" (Editions Scali), was also published, in French only.

Benderson is the literary executor of the deceased novelist, Ursule Molinaro. Ursule Molinaro (died 2000 New York City) was a prolific novelist playwright translator and visual artist the author of 12 novels two collections of short prose works He is mentioned in Frédéric Beigbeder's most recent book, Windows on the World. Frédéric Beigbeder (born September 21 1965) is a French writer commentator literary critic and pundit In 2006, he became a publishing associate at Virgin Books USA but now works for the literary agent David Vigliano.

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