The Golden Age: Manuscript Painting at the Time of Jean, Duc De Berry

Arts & Photography

Ursule Molinaro

Bruce Benderson

Marcel Thomas

History & Criticism

Chatto&Windus

UNKNOWN

What's missing from the American underground? Not publicity for funding, but vital links to the culture of poverty. Bruce Benderson, novelist and commentator, takes you on a philosophical and personal journey into new and old bohemia. His last stop is vanishing Times Square, where middle class thrill-seekers used to have contact with underclass dealers and hustlers. In this book-length essay, written in the tradition of the old-style manifesto, Benderson seeks to restore id to the creative act. His perverse yet courageous goal is to invent a "new degeneracy."

Toward the New Degeneracy: An Essay

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Edgewise Press, Inc.

For more than five decades, with relentless candor, biting wit, and striking imagery, Bruce Benderson's fiction has celebrated the warped beauty of our megalopolises, including their clashes between the classes and their subcultures of sex and drugs. Oppressed but flamboyant, the voices of his subterranean worlds have become just too intense to be ignored.Now, for the first time, all his short texts, including 21 never before published, appear together in the same volume. Included is one of the first post-Stonewall coming out stories, written in 1970, decades before such narratives developed into a full genre. This, then, is the complete and definitive Bruce Benderson reader.Benderson's most well-known book, The Romanian: Story of an Obsession, was awarded the prestigious Prix de Flore in its French edition. Other publications include the essay collection Sex and Isolation, the short story collection Pretending to Say No, and the novels Pacific Agony and User.

Urban Gothic

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Itna Press

This title recounts the writer's love for an impoverished Romanian whom he meets while on a journalism assignment. Free of bitterness, nastiness, or any desire to protect himself, he is sustained throughout by little white codeine pills, a poetic self-awareness, a sense of humor, and an unwavering belief in the perfect romance.

The Romanian

LGBTQ+ Books

Biographies & Memoirs

Snowbooks

Le Pire Endroit de New-York/The Worst Place in New York

Le Dernier Terrain Vague

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