Teju Cole reading from Open City to a full house! Luc Sante’s piece “Dear Messiah” was hilarious and poignant. Finnish writer Riika Pulkkinen read in Finnish, then in English, from her novel True.

Random shots including Jennifer Egan, Teju Cole, Karl O. Knausgard and Riikka Pulkkinen at Messiah in Brooklyn at Invisible Dog. Amber Magruder magrudera@msn.com