2024-12-22T00:17:20-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/48347271/affection-the-ruling-emotion Nam Henderson 2012-05-13T19:52:00-04:00 >2012-05-13T22:12:18-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/1v/1v7itk3ajwxflqg6.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>McCoy had the opportunity to create a school and then witness its foibles, its meanderings, and opine about its legacy.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Alexandra Lange reviews the recently published&nbsp;<a href="http://www.eastofborneo.org/books/mccoy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader</a>. The book is the first published collection of her writings and&nbsp;includes out-of-print essays, articles, short stories, as well as previously unpublished lectures, correspondence, and memoirs.&nbsp;Lange concludes that&nbsp;McCoy's "<em>humorous way of noticing, her personal touch, her California-ness</em>" resulted in writing that "<strong>reads as wonderfully sympathetic, but not uncritical.</strong>"&nbsp;</p>