The New Yorker Unlocks Secret to Blogging The New Yorker s always enterprising Ben McGrath made the harrowing, God-awful trek to Queens last week to visit Flux Factory, an alleged artists collective... read the rest of the post

Young novelists in love! We were glad to see that we weren't the only ones amused by the Times's editorial about Flux Factory's "Novel" installation. One almost wonders whether this bit of preaching is an editorial joke on readers, since…

Flux Takes 'Novel' Approach To Art "Novel" makes writers and their lives part of a new exhibit at Flux Factory. By Molly Langmuir For the past three months, Ian Montgomery has been rummaging through dumpsters, collecting wood. "It's all found…

Times Teaches, Can't Do The New York Times editorial page never shirks the Big Questions, and today it pronounces on a Long Island City reality-art thingamee at the Flux Factory called Novel: A Living Installation. The deal is a trio…

Writing Inside the Box Published: May 10, 2005 Over at the Flux Factory, an artists' collective in Long Island City, three fiction writers have agreed to isolate themselves in small writing cells for a project called "Novel: A Living Installation."…

Would You, Could You in a Box? (Write, That Is.) By JULIE SALAMON Published: May 9, 2005, NY Times, Art Section The novelist Laurie Stone understood that her desire to go into the box was a symptom of something, she…

PEN & PEN By JEREMY OLSHAN WRITERS often do their best work behind bars. Cervantes penned most of "Don Quixote" in the pen. Dostoevsky found inspiration in incarceration. In the tradition of those literary inmates, three novelists locked themselves in…