erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin) wrote:

>Dorothy J Heydt (djheydt@uclink.berkeley.edu) wrote:
>> In article <58devh$qfm@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
>> R. Wald <rwald@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote:
>> >Does anyone know why Steven Brust signs the letters 'PJF' after
his name?

>> Stands for "Pre-Joycean Fellowship," used (semi-seriously) by
several
>> Minneapolis writers as a way of indicating they want to write
>> real stories in coherent English, not Joycean
stream-of-consciousness
>> stuff.

>I knew Brust used the PJF tag, but I was rather surprised when I got
>around to reading his stuff (in huge gulps.) He's more fond of
stylistic
>tricks than any three other writers I know 

The best explanation for the Fellowship is: We exist to poke fun at
the excesses of modern literature, while simultaneously mining it for
everything of value.

The "straight-forward storytelling" idea is a bit over-simplified.
Hell, my hero is Roger Zelazny.

On the other hand, as someone said, it is in large part a joke, and in
another large part a way to start literary arguments.

Steven Brust                         "Never play pool with a man who
skzb@dreamcafe.com              brings his own table." -- Erik Baker