In 2004, Benderson's lengthy erotic memoir Autobiographie érotique, about a nine-month sojourn in Romania, won the prestigious French literary prize Prix de Flore.
Benderson's 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.
[5] As a journalist, he has written on squatters for the New York Times Magazine,[6] boxing for the Village Voice, unusual shelters for nest, the art of translation for The Wall Street Journal, and film, books, and culture for various other publications, including "Paris Vogue," "Vogue Hommes," French "GQ," "Libération," Out, The Stranger, New York Press, BlackBook magazine, and Paper.
He has translated numerous books of French origin, including Virginie Despentes' novel Baise Moi[7] (which was later adapted into a controversial film); the writers Robbe-Grillet, Pierre Guyotat, Sollers, Benoît Duteurtre, Grégoire Bouillier, Philippe Djian, Martin Page and Nelly Arcan; and, though it is quite far away from his usual subject matter, the autobiography of Céline Dion.
In 2006, he became a publishing associate at Virgin Books USA and later worked developing projects and editing proposals for the literary agent David Vigliano.
[citation needed] In 2022, Benderson's long-awaited collection of complete short stories, Urban Gothic, was published by ITNA Press.