What do the letters “PJF” after Steven Brusts name mean?
PJF = Pre-Joycean Fellowship The name is modelled on that of an artist’s group named the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. A number of writers have appended it including Brust, Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Jane Yolen, Pamela Dean and Neil Gaiman (this is not an exhaustive list). Many, but not all of them are members of Minneapolis Fantasy Writer’s Group, the Scribblies. In the words of Pamela Dean, here is roughly what the PJF is trying to do: “… we are trying to undo the separation of the so-called popular values and traits in literature (which probably include straight- forward narration) and the so-called literary values and traits (which probably include stream-of-consciousness writing). We don’t always succeed; we don’t always try; we don’t feel that writers doing other things are evil. But we are trying to reunite, in our work, the popular and the literary. Every one of us has a different definition of those terms and a different notion of how what we are trying to do should be accompl
