LitHub Daily: December 17, 2015

• Rebecca Solnit explains to us how men explain Lolita to her. | Literary Hub
• So you’ve decided to launch an imprint: Emily Gould and Ruth Curry on Emily Books’ new print adventure. | Literary Hub
• New Yorker contributors share which books they loved this year (and more that are related to poetry). | The New Yorker
• If you are so over 2015 and the thousands of lists seeing it out, here are some books to look forward to next year. | Conversational Reading
• Happy (very) early 400th deathday, Shakespeare! The University of Texas at Austin got you a virtual museum. | The New York Times
• On Lidia Yuknavitch’s “incendiary blast of a novel,” The Small Backs of Children. | Public Books
• Mapping literary worlds and visiting literary landscapes: On the fascination with geography in books. | The Toast
• Sadness, ghosts, and questions of identity: A history of the Christmas story. | Electric Literature
• The authors of ten of this year’s best books select ten other best books. | The Fader
• Please welcome to the stage Simon & Schuster, who will pay Taylor Swift’s biggest fans to compose a crowd-sourced biography “with the feel of a scrapbook.” | BuzzFeed Books

Also on Literary Hub: The 10 best overlooked books of the year, courtesy of the National Book Critics Circle · On Lucia Berlin, friend and mentor: former students recall a wonderful writing teacher · From one of the New York Times’ best books of the year: an excerpt from Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk