 He was a co-writer, with Sam Levinson and Samuel Baum, of the screenplay for "The Wizard of Lies", a 2017 HBO movie about the disgraced financier Bernie Madoff, based on the non-fiction book of the same title by Diana B. Henriques; the screenplay was a 2018 nominee for a Writers Guild of America Award, for an adapted long-form program.Schwartz has contributed articles to publications including "The New Yorker", "The New York Times Book Review", "The Boston Globe", and "Vogue".He has taught at Harvard, the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Sarah Lawrence College.