Memoirs of a Young Bastard: The Diaries of Tim Burstall by Tim Burstall, edited by Hilary McPhee Miegunyah Press, 2012, 343 pages, $59.99 Larrikins: A History by Melissa Bellanta University of Queensland Press, 2012, 296 pages, $34.95 There are two reasons why Memoirs of a Young Bastard is so compelling. The first is that it is one of the few detailed diaries of life in bohemia, not only in Australia but in the world. There are countless memoirs, operas, novels, songs, paintings about bohemians—from Berlin, Bloomsbury or Budapest to the Left Bank, Greenwich Village or Shanghai. But daily-life diaries recording the routine…
Subscribe to get access to all online articles
Already a member?
Sign in to read this article
Digital Subscription
$98 / YR
Get the latest ideas from Australia’s most insightful writers.
- Digital Subscription includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
Printed & Digital Subscription
$118 / YR
For avid readers of leading ideas
from Australia’s brightest.
- Printed & Digital Subscription includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
- Quadrant Patron includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
- All new editions of Quadrant Books
- Exclusive invitations to Quadrant Dinners, book launches and events.
- Quadrant Patron includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
- All new editions of Quadrant Books
- Exclusive invitations to Quadrant Dinners, book launches and events.