PERSOL: MEET THE NEW GENERATION

THE WORK:

To spotlight a contemporary update to Persol’s iconic 649 sunglasses, we launched a campaign that put a modern spin on classic storytelling. MEET THE NEW GENERATION was a choose-your-own-adventure graphic novel that lived on Instagram--and let users guide our Persol-clad hero through a cinematic, dystopian world.

SOME AWARDS:

Adweek Ad of the Day

W3 Best Writing Award

W3 Best Social Promotion

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Transforming the Instagram gallery into a graphic novel.

Persol's website hosted the experience in long scroll.

Hemingway's Spain

NERD ALERT. I like me some classic American lit. Hemingway's always been a favorite. And so I decided to write an essay about his little known friendship with an American matador. After the Hemingway Society awarded me their Hinkle Grant and flew me to Spain to present the paper, the piece was printed in Hemingway's Spain: Imagining the Spanish World, which you can snag on Amazon or at Barnes & Noble. My academic street cred just went through the roof, y'all.

LOVE FOR THE WORK

"Ian Grody's focus on Hemingway's novillero friend Sidney Franklin is the most extended treatment in Hemingway studies of this fascinating association."

-Carl Eby & Mark Cirino, Editors

"A must-read for serious aficionados investigating Spainish influences in Hemingway's work."

-Gail D. Sinclair, Co-Editor, War + Ink, New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway

"A conceptual breakthrough in Hemingway studies."

-Hilary K. Justice, Author, The Bones of Others: The Hemingway Text from The Lost Manuscripts to the Posthumous Novels

Published Poetry & Fiction

Stephen King probably put it best when he said "a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger." Well, I guess The Columbia Review, Lit, Pank, Flatman Crooked, Johnny America, Predicate, Quay, Collectanea, Nano and about a dozen other pubs thought I was a pretty good kisser! They printed my pieces in their mags - and for that I'm very grateful. Oh, and shout out to the Minetta Review and Cosmopsis Books for publishing my poems. I've included one of those here. Please to enjoy.