Architectural Record Extended article: July 2005
If you build it, they will write. This past May, the Flux Factory, an art collective based in Long Island City, New York, was transformed into a writing laboratory. In the 2,500-square-foot gallery space, three novelists settled into small live/work…
SepiaMutiny Blog: June 6th, 2005
A not-so-novel writing method Writer Ranbir Sidhu just finished a novel while locked in an architect-designed habitat for 30 days, 22 ½ hours each day. The publicity stunt by Queens artist collective Flux Factory resembles another mentally focusing experience known…
New Yorker – Talk of the Town May 2005
DEPT. OF INSPIRATION WRITERS AT WORK Issue of 2005-05-23 Posted 2005-05-16 A room of one's own, in which to write: it's an old and chronically romanticized idea - the solitary space, with an ashtray, an Olivetti, the morning light just…
Gawker: 17 May 2005
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
The Gothamist: May 14th 2005
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…
Queens Tribune: May 12 2005
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…
Gawker: 10 May 2005
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…
NY Times Editorial – Tuesday May 10th 2005
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."…
NY TIMES, May 9, 2005
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…