"'Why will people want to read this book?' is a brilliantly META- question to ask about The Shapes of Fancy, since the book is centrally concerned with why anyone wants to read anything, and with the structuring condition of readerly want as a primary engine of meaning-making in a literary text!  I really intend the book to be used as a work of theory; I hope that people will adapt this affectively-attuned queer reading practice to other texts that attract their fancy.  I hope this book will invite reflection on the workings of identification and desire that animate its readers in the act of reading it, and I hope it will incite larger questions about where exactly desire, or queerness, inheres in any text or cultural object."

Read the full interview with Christine Varnado at Notches blog.