Catherine Pierce presents Foxes for Everybody, with Emily Spivack

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About the book:

Like a newborn’s patterns of sleeping and waking, the revelations of motherhood don’t follow a reasonable schedule, and there’s no clocking out. Organized around the hours of the day, Foxes for Everybody gives voice to the marvels, fears, absurdities, and astonishments of parenthood. These essays offer twenty-four glimpses into how we experience time, our families, our planet, and all of those small moments that aren’t small at all. In memories and reflections that weave through tornadoes and jellyfish, cemeteries and carousels, mortality, mental health, and the exquisite gift of a perfect sentence, acclaimed writer Catherine Pierce reminds us that fear and joy can and do live side by side, and urges us to stay awake—even when, especially when, we’re at the brink of exhaustion—to the possibility of wonder.

About the participants:

Catherine Pierce is the author of five poetry collections, including Danger Days and the upcoming Dear Beast. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, The Sun, and elsewhere. A two-time Pushcart Prize winner and a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets, Pierce served as Poet Laureate of Mississippi from 2021 to 2025. From 2007-2024, she was professor of English and co-director of the creative writing program at Mississippi State University. She now lives in her home state of Delaware, where she runs Studio & Craft, a poetry community.

Emily Spivack is an artist, Emmy award-winning filmmaker, and New York Times best-selling author whose work draws from contemporary culture, clothing, history, and our relationship to everyday objects. She turned her New York Times bestselling book, Worn Stories and the follow-up Worn in New York into a Netflix show, which she executive produced with Jenji Kohan (Orange is the New Black) and Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor). She developed and produced the Emmy-winning documentary, Patrice: The Movie, which came out of her Worn Stories book and TV projects. In her column for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The Story of a Thing, Spivack interviewed cultural figures about objects in their homes. As artist-in-residence at MoMA from 2017-2018, Emily invited visitors to contribute to An archive of everything worn to MoMA, a permanent part of MoMA’s Archives. She was the host of Dress Codes, a Gimlet/Spotify podcast. Emily’s 2017 off-site installation for the Honolulu Museum of Art, Medium White Tee, was a fulfillment of President Barack Obama’s stated fantasy to run a T-shirt shack that sold only medium-sized white tees. She and her work have been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Vogue, and Art in America.

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