Writing by David Lerner Schwartz
Fiction
- “How Confection Can Change Your Life” The Greensboro Review
- “When the Couple Upstairs Keeps Me up at Night I Pray They’ll Fall Asleep” Five Points
- “Lovingkindness” Wigleaf
- “Cypher Series” Michigan Quarterly Review
- “We Can Voyage There” Nimrod
- “Love Was This Alone” New Orleans Review
- “The Binding Thing” New Letters
- “Men Who Become Verbs” The Masters Review
- “My Father’s Remedy” Ecotone
- “The Truest Thing is an Open Mouth,” “Two High Schoolers Hold Me Down as I Drown,” “Prayer to Bouncer,” “Wound Healing,” “The Stars, Oh The Stars,” “First Things First” The Florida Review
- “I Am Born Before the Written Word” Quarter After Eight
- “Before He Made Love He Made Light” New Ohio Review
- “A Hundred Ways to Die” Los Angeles Review
- “The Worst Kind of Faith” Witness
- “Safe” SmokeLong Quarterly
Essays & Scholarship
- “The Ethics of Ambience: Narrative Approaches to Justice in Healthcare AI” The American Journal of Bioethics Co-written with Elizabeth Lanphier
- “The New Narrative Medicine: Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence on Healthcare Narratives” Monash Bioethics Review Co-written with Elizabeth Lanphier
- “‘Harv Is Plowing Now’: Absence is a Form of Structure” The John Updike Review
- “Possibility is Spellbinding: The Lightness by Emily Temple” The Rumpus
- “On Percival Everett’s Almost Secret Experiment in a Novel in Threes” Literary Hub
- “How Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Shows Up in Literary Fiction” Literary Hub
- “Social Media and The Sublime, Online” Quartz
- “Our Expanded Vocabulary: Talking on the Phone, Revisited” The Startup
Interviews
- With Brandon Hobson (The Devil is a Southpaw) and Adam Ross (Playworld) Miami Book Fair
- With Erik Larson about The Demon of Unrest Miami Book Fair
- With Percival Everett about Dr. No Miami Book Fair
Film
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“We Can Voyage There” dir. Tedra Millan · Floor 1 Productions
Semi-Finalist for New York International Women Festival. Selected for Coney Island Film Festival and Philadelphia Independent Film Festival.
Stage
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“Nineteen Twenty-Six” Red Bull Shorts Vol. 5
Winner of Red Bull Theater’s Short New Play Festival. Rights and licensing information here. Press in Theater Mania and Broadway World. Co-written with Sofya Levitsky-Weitz.
Kinda Funny
- “I’m Spilling the Tea on My ‘Groundbreaking’ Kettle” The Strategist
- “This Portable Microphone Is Just As Much Fun As K-Town Karaoke” The Strategist
- “This Cheap But Expensive-Looking Gym Bag Holds an Ungodly Number of Things” The Strategist
- “This Salad Spinner Collapses to the Size of Two Frisbees” The Strategist
- “This Nifty Tote Has Turned All My Dates Into Picnics” The Strategist
- “This Robe Feels Like You’re Wearing a Bed” The Strategist