Janice Harvey: Andrew Noone joins pantheon of local authors with Bathsheba Spooner
Janice Harvey
Special to Worcester Magazine
In my living a room, there’s a shelf devoted to local writers. When I was teaching English I kept this collection on display in my classroom to inspire young authors. Included are the works of Jack O’Connell, Stanley Kunitz, John Dufresne, Kevin Harvey, Elizabeth Bishop, Ray Slater, Paul Della Valle, Joe Fusco, Jr., Robert Benchley and now, Andrew Noone.
I met Andrew Noone in the third grade at Columbus Park elementary school. Instantly I was teased in the schoolyard when little girls recognized that we were both rather skinny and freckle-faced. “Andrew Noone is your boyfriend!” they sang as they danced around me. Andrew Noone never was my boyfriend, and he was not amused, though we were classmates through the 8th grade. Andrew went on to earn graduate degrees in musicology and art history as a Florence Fellow with Syracuse University, and
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RUSH TO JUDGEMENT: When the recent death of conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh was mentioned on Facebook Wednesday, all I can think of was, “But who will Jim Polito emulate now?” Clearly, the WTAG radio personality was thinking the same thing, calling Limbaugh “the GOAT” on a Facebook Live post mourning his passing. Much like Boston s Howie Carr (and arguably, to a lesser degree, local radio personality Jordan Levy), Polito aped Limbaugh s ill-mannered, low-blow sort of media presentation and often brought mud-flinging and mean-spirited insults into local media and politics, perhaps reaching its apex with the 2012 feud between himself and now-retired Telegram & Gazette columnist Dianne Williamson, as chronicled by Worcester Magazine s own Janice Harvey, who saw the real life blow-up between the two at a WoMag Best of Worcester” event: “The verbal head-butting that occurred between these two has been brewing for years,” wrote Harvey, “thanks t