•CULT FAVORITE: Volodine's unique literary project—he's almost completed a 49-book cycle about "post-exoticism" written under several pseudonyms—gains more and more attention with each publication. His two biggest breakout moments were the publication of Manuela Draeger's In Times of the Blue Ball and the Two Month Review season on Radiant Terminus. •FIRST MANUELA DRAEGER IN A DECADE: Manuela Draeger is the pseudonym under which Volodine has been writing adolescent stories for two decades to great acclaim in France. This is only the second of her collections to appear in English.