Take a walk on the noir side of the Australia’s most liveable city with “The Melbourne Flâneur”!

Meet the dandy-flâneur who doubles as Melbourne’s most stylish writer.

Dean Kyte’s blog, “The Melbourne Flâneur”, is the word on the global street for authoritative info on how to live a leisured lifestyle à la française.

He does it Down Under in what he calls ‘Paris-on-the-Yarra’. In this underground zine Dean Kyte gives you the low-down on the æsthetic lifestyle philosophy of Parisian flânerie he explains in deep dives on his blog.

As you turn the pages, you’ll feel a sense of intimacy with Dean as he gives you a guided tour of a Melbourne that even the locals don’t recognize, taking you through how he lives his undercover Parisian lifestyle as Australia’s most dandiacal, flâneurial writer.

Gathering together some of the most popular articles published on Dean Kyte’s blog, you’ll discover exactly what a flâneur is and learn how flânerie can be defiantly deployed as a ‘Slow’ way of being in the world—a gentle act of analogue resistance to out-of-control digital efficiency.

In addition to fiction and photo-romans that take you inside Dean’s altered-state experience as he observes the urban scene, there’s also an article on Charles Baudelaire, the first philosopher of flânerie, in which Dean draws a provocative parallel between Baudelaire’s love poetry and the flâneurial praxis of urban Daygame.

Dean Kyte also introduces you to his original concepts of ‘flâneurial cinema’ and ‘flânography’, showcasing how the anonymity of his lifestyle as Melbourne’s most underground writer allows him to penetrate the secret spaces of the city and get the shots on film that inspire his prose poetry and literary noir fiction.

A feast of fine critical writing and bold graphic design, “The Melbourne Flâneur” zine is an intimate introduction to the life, art and ideas of Australia’s best-kept literary secret and a surreal stroll through one of the of the world’s most unique cities.