Alex Zola

1.) Who do you wish you kept in touch with from high school? Matt Alvin, Dave Walsh, Jeff Marcus, Karl Seichter, Matt Gabe and many, many others

2.) What is something you wish you did after high school or college that you never had the chance to do? Go to Moldova and see the village where my late father was born, see Ireland where my Mother's people are from and go to Venice and Florence to see what Mr. Guilmet was all up in arms about.

3.) What is something you're happy you had the chance to do? Start my writing career at SPIN, work for Jerry Della Femina, Jerry Weinstein and Alan Stillman, meet Allen Ginsburg, Gregory Corso, Herb Hunke, Hunter S. Thompson, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Richard Thompson and Al Aronowitz in New York before it became another Strip Mall, interview Ernie Harwell on his last trip to Yankee Stadium (If only it were Tiger Stadium, sigh.).

4.) Where is your favorite place you've been to in the last 20 years? Coney Island. It's like walking into a Tom Waits song.

5.) Name a high school memory that still makes you smile/laugh - The Army of a Non-Denominational Supreme Being. Although this idea to grab Newton the bear from Mr. Klein never came off, today we would have ended up in jail for just thinking about it.

6.) Who are you looking forward to seeing at the reunion? Matt Alvin, Dave Walsh, Jeff Marcus, Karl Seichter, Matt Gabe and many, many others

7.) Is there anything your spouse/significant other would be surprised to know about you from your high school days? After I explain #5 to my current girlfriend, The Magic Bullet Theory (a book I am about to go into contract on) will make absolute sense.