Bruce Benerson (born August 6, 1946) is an American author who lives in New York. He was a contemporary of Camille Paglia at William Nottingham High School (1964) in Syracuse, New York and then Binghamton University (1968). He is today a novelist, essayist, journalist and translator, widely published in France, less so in the United States. 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. 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. He is also the author of James Bidgood (Taschen, 1999), about the maker of the cult film Pink Narcissus. Benderson has been published in Between C & D, 3:AM Magazine, American Letters and Commentary, Men on Men and Flesh and the Word. 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. 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. In 2007, his translation of Tony Duvert's "Le bon sexe illustré" (Good Sex Illustrated) was released by Semiotext(e). A second book by Duvert he has translated will be released by the same publisher in 2008.