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148 Dive Bars

 
149 Self-Importance

 
150 Rock Climbing

Acknowledgments

I want to thank my wife, Jessica Lander, for her love and support; my father, Richard, for giving me a sense of humor; my brother, Aaron, for pointing out my pretentiousness; and my three universities for the inspiration.

I would also like to thank Myles Valentin for his inspiration and brillance in writing about Asian Girls and Oscar Parties.

Photograph Acknowledgments

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Rebecca Shapiro:
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About the Author

CHRISTIAN LANDER is the creator of the website Stuff White People Like. He is a PhD dropout who was the 2006 public speaking instructor of the year at Indiana University. He has lived in Toronto, Montreal, Copenhagen, Tucson, Indiana, and now Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, Jess, a photographer who contributed many of the photos in the book.

A Random House Trade Paperback Original

Copyright © 2008 by Christian Lander

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House Trade Paperbacks, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

RANDOM HOUSE TRADE PAPERBACKS and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Some of the material in this book originally appeared, occasionally in different form, in the blog Stuff White People Like (
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com
).

Photograph credits can be found on Back Matter.

“Asian Girls” and “Oscar Parties” were written by Myles Valentin and are used here by permission.

eISBN: 978-1-58836-837-9

www.atrandom.com

Photographs on title-page spread by Jess Lander

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*1 Never replace Stereogum with Pitchfork, which is one of those things that used to be cool but is now not cool.
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