Books Sandwiched In

Books Sandwiched In (BSI) has been running since 1956. Sign up for FFRPL’s newsletter to receive news of upcoming events or view the recordings of livestreamed BSI events linked below!

Books Sandwiched In reviews are held on Tuesdays in the Spring and Fall, 12:12pm-12:52pm, in Central Library’s Kate Gleason Auditorium (115 South Avenue).

Watch livestream reviews on the RPL YouTube Channel: ‘Rochester Public Library NY’

 

Spring 2026

Watch Emily Dane-Staples’s March 10 live-streamed review of Every Day Is Sunday

Watch Eric Ensley’s March 17 live-streamed review of The Library of Lost Maps

Watch Sally Millick’s March 24 live-streamed review of Somebody is Walking on Your Grave

Watch Hunter E. Vaughn’s April 7 live-streamed review of Theater Kid: A Broadway Memoir by Jeffrey Seller

Watch Mona Seghatoleslami’s April 14 live-streamed review of Mood Machine:The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly

**(our apologies to our reviewer and those trying to access the Mood Machine live-stream; audio starts at the 20:44 mark)**

View/download the pdf of Mona Seghatoleslami’s PowerPoint presentation on Mood Machine .

Watch Roslyn Bakst Goldman’s April 21 live-streamed review of Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux

 

Fall 2025

Watch Dan Mason’s Sept. 9 live-streamed review of Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America by Will Bardenwerper

Watch Scott Pukos’ Sept. 16 live-streamed review  of Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey

Watch Don Hyatt’s Sept. 23 live-streamed review  of Warhol’s Muses by Laurence Leamer

Watch Mitch Gruber’s Sept. 30 live-streamed review of Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

Watch Edward Ashton’s Oct. 7 live-streamed review of Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

Watch Paige Hauser and Rachel Saper’s Oct. 14 live-streamed review of Everyone Who is Gone is Here by Jonathan Blitzer

Watch Tyler Barton’s October 21 live-streamed review of Bibliophobia: A Memoir by Sarah Chihaya

Watch Steven Orr’s October 28 live-streamed review  of Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane

 

Spring 2025

Watch the March 18 live-streamed review of James

Watch the March 25 live-streamed review of Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Watch the April 1 live-streamed review of Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

Watch the April 15 live-streamed review of Hip Hop is History

• View/download the pdf of notes from the April 15 review
• View additional info. on Quincy Jones & Hip-Hop

Watch the April 22 live-streamed review of Briefly Perfectly Human

• View/download the pdf of notes from the April 22 review

Watch the May 6 live-streamed review of The Backyard Bird Chronicles

 

Fall 2024

Watch the September 10 live-streamed review of The Infernal Machine

Watch the September 17 live-streamed review of Things That Go Bump in the Universe

Watch the September 24 live-streamed review of Rebel Girl

Watch the October 1 live-streamed review of BoyMom

Watch the October 8 live-streamed review of Soil

Watch the October 22 live-streamed review of This Is Why You Dream

Watch the October 29 live-streamed review of Pockets