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You've probably heard of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, but you probably didn't know that production designer and @BUAlumni Rick Heinrichs (@BUarts’76) was critical to creating the immersive world of Nightmare’s Halloween Town. 🧵(1/5) https://t.co/QfC1bry7La

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.@CPhillipsPoet (@BU_GRS'93) had no idea he was in the running for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry when he won the coveted award for his collection Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020. We spoke with him about the award and more. @bualumni https://t.co/S2OemqpR5S

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“This play really did start with a literal nightmare, sort of akin to Mary Shelley’s story of how she wrote Frankenstein,” says Jay Eddy (GRS’23). https://t.co/1WNlgDUOfs

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William Giraldi, a @BU_CAS master lecturer, says the main character in his new novel, About Face, is a writer. Having a writer as a protagonist “allows me to indulge in language, to stretch the bounds of what syntax and diction can do.” https://t.co/Lnle0qJla9

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Say hello 👋 to Gus D’Angelo (@COMatBU’85). He's the author of "National Parks A to Z: Adventure from Acadia to Zion!" A children's book meant to inspire kids to become more active and engaged with nature. Keep reading ⬇️ https://t.co/vbgA45KOEC

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Director of the CDC, Rochelle Walensky, visited BU to speak with the dean of public health, Sandro Galea, on the federal agency’s COVID-19 pandemic successes and mistakes. https://t.co/kyNDEG9OPG

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“This play really did start with a literal nightmare, sort of akin to Mary Shelley’s story of how she wrote Frankenstein,” says Jay Eddy (GRS’23). https://t.co/1WNlgDUOfs

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Rachel Silber Devlin's new book, Snapshots of My Father, John Silber (Hon.’95), looks back at BU’s controversial seventh president. Keep reading ⬇️ https://t.co/mgKJmNv73m

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“What I’ve loved hearing from people who’ve read the book, particularly those who are not part of the queer community, is how they see themselves in the story,” says Perfectly Queer author Jillian Abby (@BUQuestrom’04). https://t.co/Kq2wylbaoD