For fifty-two consecutive issues spanning the years 1997 to 2008, Robert Michael Pyle’s column “Tangled Bank” appeared in Orion and Orion Afield magazine. Now, thanks to Oregon Statue University Press all of these essays have been collected into and published as a single volume titled The Tangled Bank; Writings from Orion. As a regular reader of both Orion as well as Mr. Pyle’s writings, I have previously read – and very much enjoyed many of the “Tangled Bank” columns; however I am very glad, thanks to the publication of this collection, to be able to read all those I have missed.
