At SUNY Press, Rafael Chaiken has been promoted to assistant acquisitions editor and Emily Keneston has been promoted to assistant production editor.
As of January 1, Dutch agency Sebes & Van Gelderen will change its name to Sebes & Bisseling, as Willem Bisseling becomes a partner after almost 10 years with the firm.
The shortlists for the ALA Carnegie Medals were announced, with the winners to be named at the ALA Midwinter conference in January:
Fiction
The Book of Aron, by Jim Shepard
A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara
The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Nonfiction
H is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald
Hold Still, by Sally Mann
The Invention of Nature, by Andrea Wulf