Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • Book Reviews,  Competitions,  Journalism,  Updates

    Real men do read – they just don't let the sexy, geek goddesses know.

    February 6, 2013 / 12 Comments

    Rob Kennedy, an Australian poet (and male for the purposes of this discussion) asked this question in a blog post recently: Do real men read books?* He had several issues with this question: What the hell constitutes a “real man” anyway? To which I nod my head furiously because yes, what the hell are we discussing when we talk about “real men”? What makes one man more “real” than the next, apart from the fact that maybe he isn’t some intangible figure in your brain…… moving on. The reason he asked the question in the first place was because he had found a lot of American based programs and websites…

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    The Sri Lankan "war generation" and the books that "made" us.

    March 26, 2011
    Cover of the book Portable curiosities by Julie Koh

    The best Australian books that 7 Australian writers loved in 2016

    January 2, 2017
    Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013

    Where have I been?

    May 5, 2013
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    7 ways newspaper websites can succeed (or why Rupert Murdoch is horribly wrong)

    November 13, 2009 / No Comments

    Marisa Wikramanayake writes about how newspapers can succeed online and why Rupert Murdoch is wrong to insist that Google not index The Australian's website.

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    Live Tweet: The National Carbon Capture & Storage Conference, Perth

    October 22, 2012

    AWW 2013: Interview with author Marj McRae

    January 17, 2013
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    International Women's Day: And the backlash has started…

    March 9, 2011

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