Literature

T. J. English in Conversation

The Westies and Blood in the Desert

Past Event

Details

$25–43 (inclusive of fees)

75 minutes

Date(s)

Wed, Sep 30, 2026

7:00pm - 8:15pm

Contact

boxoffice@irishartscenter.org
888-616-0274

Location

Irish Arts Center 
726 11th Avenue 
Hell's Kitchen, NYC

Overview

Nonfiction crime author and journalist T. J. English joins us to celebrate the publication of Blood in the Desert: The T. J. English Reader—his latest collection of essays spanning subjects as varied as jazz, boxing, police corruption, violence in the desert Southwest, and the comedy of George Carlin—and to mark the anniversary of one of his most notable publications, The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob. Journalist Phoebe Eaton (In the Thrall of the Mountain King: The Secret History of El Chapo, the World's Most Notorious Narco) moderates.

Bios

T. J. English
Phoebe Eaton

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