American Translation: "Bill Buckner"

A couple of other blogs have noticed that "Luther Blissett," a pseudonymous collective named after a English footballer who played a disastrously bad season in Italy, has just been nominated for England's Independent Foreign Fiction prize. The Guardian profiled the quartet last summer when they were up for its annual prize to first-time authors. And if you really want to see how good the Reformation-era thriller Q is, download it for free, along with several other works "Wu Ming," as the group now calls itself, has made available.