East of Borneo is an online magazine of contemporary art, and its history, as seen from Los Angeles.

It has just published its first book, PIECING TOGETHER LOS ANGELES: AN ESTHER McCOY READER, introduced and edited by Susan Morgan, and will launch it on Sunday, April 29, at For Your Art.

It’s hard to imagine a more propitious moment. A new book publisher’s first book…written by one of Los Angeles’s most important writers…that brings together some of the writer’s best work for the first time and amounts to a kind of autobiography of the writer and her city, and L.A. was her city.

Esther McCoy was a peerless writer –- lucid, graceful, precise and original. Nobody did what she did and she did what she did brilliantly She set out to be a novelist, but she became the principal and most perceptive chronicler of the most significant architectural period in the city’s history. Not incidentally, she lived in a tiny house in Santa Monica for decades.

On Sunday, in addition to a book signing and reception, Mark Owens will moderate a conversation with Morgan and filmmaker Thom Andersen, director of “Los Angeles Plays Itself” (2003) and “Get Out of the Car” (2010). Morgan will discuss McCoy, narrative, and how to capture a compelling yet elusive city.

For Your Art is located at 6020 Wilshire Boulevard. Morgan and company will be there from 3 to 5 p.m.

East of Borneo’s editorial content is published alongside a growing “collaborative archive” of over 400 images, videos, texts and links uploaded by 513 registered users. It is published by the School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Getty Foundation.