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That was something I was very conscious of as a kid, that moment where kids started being a little more self-conscious. You couldn’t be so open about your love for nerdy things like comic books and superheroes any more, or playing Elfquest at recess. [Laughter] There was a shift, where it was suddenly like, people aren’t doing that any more. They’re playing basketball now.

There was a part of me that witnessed that and mourned it. Even though I fell into it, too; I started being more secretive about the fact that I played Dungeons and Dragons. You had to be careful, and I went out for the basketball team, and did things like that. But I remember being very mindful of it and realized that this is a trapping of adulthood, sublimating all these childhood imaginative pursuits for more adult things.

Colin Meloy, from the Powells.com interview with Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis about Wildwood, their beautiful new middle-grade novel set in the Impassable Wilderness (otherwise known as Forest Park in Portland)

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