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“The possibility exists that the Kochs will walk away with even more power if [Donalds] Trump's defeated.”

Quote by Jane Mayer

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Jane Mayer is an American journalist renowned for her in-depth reporting on politics and the financial world. Born in 1955, she graduated from Harvard University and has worked as a journalist for The New York Times and The New Yorker. Mayer is praised for her critical analysis of power structures and her ability to narrate complex stories. more

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“We would see another president being accused of being illegitimate, and undermined from day one, which is exactly what these donors did to [Barack] Obama.”

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“We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.”

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“I would hesitate to say the characters [ in Bink & Gollie] are too related to either to us [me and Alison McGhee], but they certainly draw on our physical traits and personality traits and then exaggerate them to the nth degree.”

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“Her sister, Holly McGhee, is an agent, and she's my agent in New York. She's Alison's agent too. Even though Alison lives here in Minneapolis, I met Alison through Holly, when Holly came to Minneapolis to visit Alison.”

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“I was over at Alison's [McGhee], I think we were playing Scrabble. I remember we were both complaining - yeah, we sound like whiners - about how hard writing is, and how we didn't have a story to work on. Alison said, 'Why don't we work on writing something together,' and I said, 'Eh, I don't know if I could work that way.' She said, 'Well, just show up here and we'll see,' and I said, 'Well, what would it be about?' She said, 'Duh, it'd be about a tall girl and a short girl.' So I agreed to come and try it for a day.”

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