another literary cabal (updated)

The Latest Dark Cabal is a new blog devoted to talking about genre works with only anonymous contributors, or in the initial post's words:

It’s a place to talk about science fiction and fantasy in the long tradition of serious discussion of the field, as inspired by sources as diverse as Bruce Sterling’s Cheap Truth and the symposium Khatru. From the start we wanted this discussion to be anonymous for a couple of reasons. First, we are writers but we don’t really want this to be about our careers. Second, because being anonymous allows a certain amount of freedom.

Looks good so far and seems to be avoiding the snark (or nark) that anonymity sometimes brings. I won't say I agree with everything that's been said there so far (not by a long shot), but it seems as if it could/should kick off some excellent discussions.

(Via Shortform.)

Updated: Justine chimes in with a thoughtful, right-on-target post about the nostalgia factor at play in at least one of the posts on the blog (one of the things I was referencing with the long shot comment but far too lazy to get specific about myself).