I wrote 'Curve Lounge' on the anniversary of his death.
His narrative for one home, called Bending Paths, begins in a meditative vein: "Like rings from a stone dropped into a pond," he wrote, "curving walls create a journey and define space".
The students were not asked to translate the statement or recite it, but to try writing the curves and dots themselves.
You wrote The Curve with Jeremy Blachman, a fellow lawyer.
It's not about the law, but one of my favorite books about education generally, and one I thought about a lot as I wrote The Curve, is Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim.
The Cheever literary legacy is fogged with a lot of this hubris, but now 35 years later, it is a good time to revisit Cheever, the master of the short story form and prescient, for better and worse, ahead of the curve writing 'magic realism.' In 2009, the release of a comprehensive biography by Blake Bailey examined Cheever in all of his complexity vis-à-vis his literary life.
It seems written in curving steel that Gehry's increasingly ubiquitous twisting, bristling and arched forms will be recognized as the stylistic signature of our era, just as we recognize the period of Wright, Wren or Michelangelo.
The site was ahead of the curve in writing stories around the mundane questions Internet users were asking, most famously with its annual "What Time is the Super Bowl?" post.
YESTERDAY'S NEWS "Buy hardware that is one generation behind the curve," writes Miles Galliford on Subhub.com, a company that sets up membership sites on the Web.
"Minimal as an art deco curve," wrote John Lahr of The New Yorker, "Private Lives matched its content: a plotless play for purposeless people".
