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Jim Holt

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Jim Holt (born October 30, 1954) is an American journalist, popular science author, and essayist. He has contributed to The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The American Scholar, and Slate. In 1997, he was editor of The New Leader, a political magazine. His book Why Does the World Exist? It was an NYTimes bestseller for 2013.

Holt hosted a weekly radio spot on BBC Wales called "Living in America, with Jim Holt" for ten years. He has appeared on William F. Buckley's Firing Line, NBC News with Tom Brokaw, and CNN. He briefly appeared in an episode of Billy on the Street in which he ended an impromptu interview after the interviewer insisted he revealed his sexuality.

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award, finalist, Why Does the World Exist? 2012 The Philosophers Magazine named his book, Why Does the World Exist? one of the best books of 2012.

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