About

I’m a writer and literary translator based in the Catskills. After graduating from SUNY Binghamton, I spent several years living in Buenos Aires, where I co-founded the BA Comedy Lab and taught literary workshops at Walrus Books.

Feel free to drop me a line at landsmanj [at] gmail [dot] com.

Translation

The Novices of Lerna by Ángel Bonomini, Transit Books

“The Bengal Tiger” in Bomb Magazine
“Aromatic Herbs” in Lit Hub
“Figs and Jasmines” in Latin American Literature Today

A Sleepless Night by Micaela Chirif and illustrated by Joaquín Camp, Transit Children’s Editions

2024 Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book
2025 USBBY Outstanding International Books

“Some Notes on the Land of the Giants” by Luciano Lamberti, Asymptote

Longlisted in Best Literary Translations 2026, Deep Vellum

“Imitation Is the Sincerest Form” by Rafael Romero, Latin American Literature Today

The Slow Elephants of Milan by Ángel Bonomini, Transit Books (forthcoming 2026)

Hidden Stories by Ángel Bonomini, Transit Books (forthcoming 2027)

Writing

“The Secret Master: On Translating the Forgotten Argentine Writer Ángel Bonomini” in Lit Hub

Press

“The Watercolorist” by Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of Books

“Magical Idealism” by Alberto Manguel, The Times Literary Supplement

“The Novices of Lerna,” Publisher’s Weekly

“The Novices of Lerna,” Kirkus Reviews

“Room of Mirrors: On Ángel Bonomini’s The Novices of Lerna” by Jordan Spector, Asymptote

“Holding a Mirror to Realism in The Novices of Lerna” by Matthew Zarenkiewicz, The Rumpus

“Shattered Selves and Confused Doubles: Ángel Bonomini’s The Novices of Lerna” by Tobias Carrol, Reactor

“Apparitions of the Self: Review of Ángel Bonomini’s The Novices of Lerna” by Will McMahon, Ancillary Review of Books

“The Novices of Lerna” by Willem Marx, Necessary Fiction

“The Man Who Dazzled Borges” by Jacob Sugarman, The Buenos Aires Herald

“The Novices of Lerna” by Louis Cammell, The Skinny

“Doppelgangers galore: The Novices of Lerna, by Ángel Bonomini, reviewed” by Stuart Evers, The Spectator

“The mysterious Argentinian novella that ‘dazzled’ Borges” by John Self, The Telegraph