From a forthcoming treatise on the Auburn Creed by Ben Bartley, excerpted here on the occasion of the 69th anniversary of D-Day. George Petrie wrote The Auburn Creed on November 12, 1943. He was 77. The Plainsman published the “Auburn Student’s Creed” on January 21, 1944. Shug Jordan arrived at Normandy on June 6, 1944 with a copy in his boot or his pocket or hidden … [Read more...] about Shug Jordan had a copy of the first publication of the Auburn Creed with him on D-Day
12 Attempts to Explain Why Everything You Love Must Die (And Be Reborn)
1. You were born an Auburn fan. Fate and choice conspired to burden your days with this nonsense. Worse fates? Yes, there are worse fates and worse choices to be made. As an Auburn fan, you believe a worse fate would have been being born an Alabama fan. But if you were born an Alabama fan you would believe there was never a birth defect more horrible than being born an Auburn … [Read more...] about 12 Attempts to Explain Why Everything You Love Must Die (And Be Reborn)
The Atkins Diet: Catfish, coffee, and crime fuel Auburn football icon’s pursuit of That Perfect Novel
Auburn Magazine ran a version of this in its latest issue. It was the cover story. Here's the original. Taylor, Mississippi’s about 15 minutes outside Oxford down Old Taylor Road. The road twists and bends through pastoral greenery and sudden tilled fields toward the town. Might be best to say Taylor’s a village. Population’s right around 500. The main street, much as it … [Read more...] about The Atkins Diet: Catfish, coffee, and crime fuel Auburn football icon’s pursuit of That Perfect Novel
Dr. Travis S. Taylor: Attempting to Understand Auburn’s Ubermensch
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. … [Read more...] about Dr. Travis S. Taylor: Attempting to Understand Auburn’s Ubermensch
J. Wes Yoder on writing, Auburn, and the surety of youth
J. Wes Yoder's Carry My Bones, most recent read of The LiterAUti, is the novel Terrence Malick would write if he was 40 years younger, grew up in Tennessee, and attended Auburn. Merit, the novel's narrator, is a mash of Sissy Spacek in Badlands—with her short, simple declarations and naive yet profound innocence—and that kid from The Tree of Life, running through fields and … [Read more...] about J. Wes Yoder on writing, Auburn, and the surety of youth