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Celebrate Bike To Work Day May 15 Show us your commute views from the handlebars of your bicycle with A View From the Handlebars Photo Contest 2026! How to enter: Post your photo with the #aviewfromthehandlebars and tag @doppelhouse to be in for a chance to win! 📸 Top 10 winning photographs selected by our panel of photographers and cycle enthusiasts will be featured in The World Cyclist @de_wereldfietser_insta ans published in a special edition of The Long Lanscape ebook. Entry deadline: May 31 2026 Link in bio for more details👆 #thelonglandscape #bikemonth #biketowork #photocontest

Looking for your next GREAT read? Find The Long Landscape at an indie bookstore near you and join the ride this summer! Featured Bookstores: Mac’s Backs Paperbacks @macs_backs Book Loft @thebookloftsolvang Chaucer & Company @chaucersbooks Bright Side Book Shop @brightsidebooksflag Vroman’s Bookstore @vromansbookstore Celebrate National Bike Month this May with the release of the new cycling memoir, The Long Landscape: A Filmmaker Cycles the American West, written by Dutch filmmaker and avid long-distance cyclist, Peter Delpeut @delpeutpeter The challenge: to cycle from Disney’s Epcot Center toward San Francisco — a 4350 mile journey — on the cusp of summer. In search of the mythological American West seamlessly represented in movies and literature, Delpeut and his beloved cycling companion instead discover a landscape rarely felt in its actual punishing weather and expanse. On their way through the South, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, the couple encounter a blistering and varied cast of characters. A philosophy emerges as they bicycle their way across America that unites the challenge, wonderment, discovery, and naiveté that brought them along these roads. “A thoughtful, quietly ambitious travel memoir that uses cycling as a lens to explore memory, perception, and the changing nature of experience. Rather than focusing on action or adventure, The Long Landscape leans into reflection, asking what it really means to move through the world” -Cycloscope 📸Want to get involved? Enter our “A View from the Handlebars” Photo Contest for a chance to win a copy of The Long Landscape and have your photos published. See the link in bio to find all participating bookstores and enter the photo contest👆 #RideToRead #NationalBikeMonth #AViewFromTheHandlebars #thelonglandscape

Where will your next ride take you? Show us the view from your next ride this National Bike Month with A View From the Handlebars Photo Contest 2026! 📸The top ten winning photographs selected by our panel of photographers and cycling enthusiasts will be featured on The World Cyclist and published in a special edition of The Long Landscape ebook! 🚴Post your photo with #AViewFromTheHandlebars and tag @doppelhouse for the chance to win cycling gear and a signed copy of The Long Landscape! Deadline: 31 May 2026 For more details, check the link in bio 📸 Images by Peter Delpeut, The Long Landscape @delpeutpeter 📸 Photos from contest entries #bikemonth #thelonglandscape #ridetoread #photocontest2026

Looking for your next great read? Celebrate National Bike Month with our new cycling memoir, The Long Landscape by Dutch filmmaker and avid long-distance cyclist, Peter Delpeut. The challenge: to cycle from Disney’s Epcot Center toward San Francisco — a 4350 mile journey — on the cusp of summer. In search of the mythological American West seamlessly represented in movies and literature, Delpeut and his beloved cycling companion instead discover a landscape rarely felt in its actual punishing weather and expanse. A philosophy emerges as they bicycle their way across America that unites the challenge, wonderment, discovery, and naiveté that brought them along these roads. “A thoughtful, quietly ambitious travel memoir that uses cycling as a lens to explore memory, perception, and the changing nature of experience. Rather than focusing on action or adventure, The Long Landscape leans into reflection, asking what it really means to move through the world.” —Cycloscope 📍Order from an indie bookstore near you and join the ride this summer! 📸 Want to get involved? Enter our “A View from the Handlebars” Photo Contest for a chance to win a copy of the book, win prizes, and even have your photos published. See the link in bio to find all participating bookstores and enter the photo contest👆 #RideToRead #NationalBikeMonth #AViewFromTheHandlebars #TheLongLandscape

Yesterday, Peter Delpeut joined Alon Raab, host of The Bike Show at KBOO Portland, to talk about his new cycling memoir, The Long Landscape. Publishing May 19, The Long Landscape is not only a travelogue, but an exploration of the history of long-distance cycling in America. From the 19th-century high-wheeler adventures, Delpeut takes side trips through H.G. Wells's Wheels of Chance, the films of John Ford in Monument Valley, Edward Abbey, the sublime paintings of Mark Rothko, and a surrealist novel by Alfred Jarry. On the day the author turns forty, the adventure culminates in Las Vegas, the ridiculous exaggeration of Manifest Destiny. But instead of becoming discouraged, he writes in a new introduction that this trip was the seed of a passion that has possessed him and his partner for decades since. “Delpeut has written a fantastic story in its charming combination of style, color, content and depth.” —The World Cyclist Listen to the full conversation at the link in our bio👆

Had to share … view from the JAB fair booth.

Three Artist Films at Jersey Art Book Fair Presented by DoppelHouse Sunday, May 3, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm 📍Jersey Art Book Fair at Mana Contemporary Go West, Young Man! Released in 2003, the hundredth anniversary of the first Western, The Great Train Robbery, this documentary film inspired by the history of the film genre is a cinematic journey through the landscapes and nostalgia of the Western. Dilapidated film sets temper the iconography of the Grand Tetons and Monument Valley in this elegiac exploration of movie-making. At the JAB, two scenes from the documentary will be shown, along with excerpts from a Film Secession interview with Peter Delpeut, revealing his personal search to understand his fallen hero, Jonas Mekas. The Long Landscape, Delpeut’s memoir of a 4350-mile long-distance bike trip across the South and Southwest, starting from Disney World and ending in Las Vegas, inspired Go West, Young Man! and is now available from DoppelHouse. See link in bio👆 Go West, Young Man! trailer, directed by Peter Delpeut and Mart Dominicus, compiled by Stef Tijdink.

UNFURLED, directed by Gail Willumsen At mid-career, queer artist Eve Wood still chases success. “The art world is a horrible business, so why do I keep doing this?” With a solo exhibition looming, she waits in anxious anticipation. “Unfurled” explores the creative process through the intimate portrait of an artist and poet at work in her studio, her influences, and the personal story that are underneath the images. She says her work allows her “to translate myself back to myself” and navigate the rocky landscape of art and personal relationships. This is the East Coast Premiere of the film loved by audiences at OUT on Film Atlanta, California Women’s Film Festival (1st place documentary), and the Golden State Film Festival, among others. Three Artist Films at Jersey Art Book Fair Presented by DoppelHouse Sunday, May 3, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm 📍Jersey Art Book Fair at Mana Contemporary UNFURLED trailer, directed by Gail Willumsen, from Gemini Productions Diane Arbus Goes Shopping, Eve Wood’s new collection of poems, is co-published by DoppelHouse and Smart Art Press. Available now. See link in bio👆

We're excited to bring three films related to our spring books to the Jersey Art Book Fair for a screening on May 3. "Unfurled" explores the creative process of mid-career, queer artist and poet Eve Wood, from the award-winning team at Gemini Productions. This is the East Coast Premiere of the film loved by audiences at OUT on Film Atlanta, California Women's Film Festival (1st place documentary), and the Golden State Film Festival, among others. Directed by Gail Willumsen, produced by Gail Willumsen and Jill Shinefield. Eve's new four-part collection of poetry, "Diane Arbus Goes Shopping" will be available at the fair. Excerpts from a Film Secession interview with Peter Delpeut, found footage filmmaker, reveals his personal search to understand his fallen hero, Jonas Mekas, as well as clips from Delpeut's "Lyrical Nitrate" (1991) and Mekas' films Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) and As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000). Delpeut's book "Jonas Mekas, Shiver of Memory" will be available in limited edition. "Go West, Young Man!" (2003), a documentary film inspired by the history of the film genre, is a cinematic journey through the landscapes and nostalgia of the Western. Directed by Peter Delpeut and Mart Dominicus, compiled by Stef Tijdink. "The Long Landscape," director Peter Delpeut’s memoir of a 4350-mile long-distance bike trip across the South and Southwest, starting from Disney World and ending in Las Vegas – the journey that inspired Go West, Young Man – will also be available. See link in bio for screening details.

Spring Highlights: Forthcoming Books and East Coast Book Fairs!

Introducing just a few of our vendors coming to LITLIT '26! Save the date to meet these folks and more on June 6 and 7 at @SCIArc as part of LARB’s annual fair celebrating small presses and mags, literary organizations, and indie publishers from all over the West Coast. @antiphonyajournal is a poetry journal and small press. Established in 2024, the journal is both digital and print publishing small-batch chapbooks as well as full-length books with a focus on experimental poetry by a range of new and established writers. @hessepress is a micro press based in LA since 2014. Hesse Press started in the art world publishing monographs of LA-based artists, but since 2019 have branched out into text books, publishing auto fiction, essays, and short stories. @typeeighteenbooks was established in 2023 as a home for literary-minded adult and young adult fiction. Their books have won the IBPA book award, an IPPY, several Kirkus recommendations, and other recognition. @DoppelHouse is a Los Angeles-based publisher that focuses on memoir, art/architecture, and biographies, often encompassing witness testimonies of war, migration, and diaspora. They're known for their pluralism and feature character-driven books that explore the dynamics between sociopolitical forces, cultural or political movements, and aesthetic forms. @agoodusedbook is a used and new bookstore located in Historic Filipinotown just south of Echo Park Lake. In the shop, they focus on literary fiction, classics, the humanities, arts and culture. They host weekly market events that feature local food pop ups and vendors. They started as a pop up in 2017, and opened their first location in 2023. Learn more about them and LITLIT at our #linkinprofile. /

How does an ordinary person become part of historical events? How can we bear witness to extraordinary times? Syrian reporter and activist Hadi Abdullah joins Alessandro Columbu, translator and professor of Arabic, University of Westminster, for a series of conversations about Abdullah’s book Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution. These crucial conversations invite UK readers and audiences to learn more about Syria and the exiled Syrian community directly from Hadi, who will be joining the events live from Damascus. 📍London University College London Institute of Advance Studies Tuesday 21 April 2026, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm 📍Oxford St. Antony’s College  Middle East Centre Thursday 30 April 2026, 5:00 pm Link in our bio for more event details☝️