Cavern of Secrets

Cavern of Secrets episodes:

• 10.26.2019

  Featuring Haviah Mighty

  Haviah Mighty drops by the Cavern after a big win: She’s the winner of the 2019 Polaris Prize for the album, 13th floor. Lauren and Haviah get into how to work with a producer, writing for discomfort, and using your...

  
• 10.25.2019

  Featuring Eden Robinson

  Author, funny woman and busy person Eden Robinson calls into the Cavern from Kitimat, British Columbia to talk nail polish, carting around family in a big car and the gift that menopause gives you. Eden’s books include Traplines, the Giller-nominated...

  
• 10.24.2019

  Featuring Carly Lewis

  Carly Lewis, journalist, kind woman and spectacular human being, joins host Lauren Mitchell in the Cavern. Carly has written for the Globe and Mail, New York Magazine, the Atlantic, Hazlitt and more. She talks about the value of feeling isolated,...

  
• 10.23.2019

  Featuring Georgia Webber

  Georgia Webber, writer and illustrator, comes to the Cavern of Secrets to talk about what it means when you can’t express yourself, learning to draw again, and allowing the possibility that someone will say ‘yes’ and help you. Georgia’s graphic...

  
• 10.22.2019

  Featuring Sarah Hagi

  Sarah Hagi, writer and queen of Twitter @geeklylonglegs, comes to the Cavern of Secrets to talk about the Garfield restaurant, the Blackest cartoons and how to have fun (again) as a writer. “It was intended to be a joke piece...

  
• 10.21.2019

  Featuring Monica Heisey

  Monica Heisey, author, comedian, TV writer and all around warm and funny individual joins host Lauren Mitchell in the Cavern to talk about the years that have passed. After a three year hiatus, Cavern of Secrets is back. Since then,...

  
• 12.19.2016

  Featuring Vicky Mochama

  The specific way men interview women (5:05), Rory Gilmore, journalist (17:17), and the Avril Lavigne riots of 2021 (48:27)

  
• 12.05.2016

  24 Featuring Carrie Brownstein ENCORE

  The corniness of Justin Trudeau (9:42), the emotional intimacy of fandom (14:45), and alternate sources of food (35:19)

  
• 11.21.2016

  Featuring Courtney Skye

  Saving lives and fighting fires (13:58), protesting at Standing Rock (23:16), and riding in cars with cops (37:18)

  
• 10.31.2016

  Featuring Léonicka Valcius

  The glamorous life of an intern (8:20),the incredible whiteness of CanLit (22:15), and playing video games for the story (44:40).

  
• 10.19.2016

  Featuring Kyrell Grant

  The O.C. at the height of its O.C.-ness (7:00), is this bolognese feminist? (19:00), and where were you when A Seat at the Table dropped? (39:38)

  
• 10.02.2016

  Featuring Dawn Whitwell

  Flossing to live (7:27), shining in a shiny room (21:44), and the blessed life of a comedy writer (33:52).

  
• 09.18.2016

  Featuring Namugenyi Kiwanuka

  Embracing your accents (9:12), little voices yelling things (14:25), and the high cost of telling your story (17:47).

  
• 09.06.2016

  Featuring Lauren McKeon

  Branding yourself a feminist (06:37), defining care and ability (12:01), and pouring one out for Sum 41 (22:30)

  
• 08.22.2016

  Featuring Cindy Li

  Terrible Calvin Klein ads (12:23), building safer raves (32:07) and how to get into Berghain (40:41)

  
• 08.08.2016

  Featuring Anupa Mistry

  Does anyone need an MBA? (10:48) knowing what you want in your 30s (15:41) and slamming some kombucha and sinking into the ocean (34:02).

  
• 07.11.2016

  Featuring Eternity Martis

  Living off of peanut butter and stale crackers (8:14), preserving Black history in Canada (13:47), and how we save our abolitionist museums (30:55)

  
• 06.27.2016

  Featuring Mya Taylor

  A five on beauty (10:56), singing Deborah Cox (20:21), and why North Dakota is better than L.A. (27:30)

  
• 06.13.2016

  Featuring Yaa Gyasi

  The public life of a book (6:40), the song of a lapsed Christian (21:57), and not getting salty about your partner’s edits (30:10).

  
• 05.29.2016

  12 Cavern is Taking the Week Off

  We’re taking the week off to chase guests and record interviews. See you in two weeks!

  
• 05.16.2016

  Featuring Cheryl Strayed

  The business of making your book a film (5:36), when adaptations aren’t (14:40), and why we need stories (24:45).

  
• 05.02.2016

  Kyrell Grant Returns

  Lemonade and intergenerational trauma (1:41), building a life in Drake’s jacket (14:04), and the saddest Reddit relationship post (22:36)

  
• 04.18.2016

  Featuring Carmen Aguirre

  Performing within the Chilean resistance (6:32), the pull of revolutionary love (19:53), and extremely fascist great aunts (31:52).

  
• 04.03.2016

  Featuring Monica Heisey

  The sweet adult baby life (6:04), a gentle disagreement with Amy Schumer (11:19), beards as the great dude leveller (21:07), and the problem of the Inappropriate Literary Man.

  
• 03.21.2016

  Featuring Leanne Shapton

  Putting a face to jealousy (5:47), the usefulness of boob shelves (16:12), and what happens between ages 0 to 3 (30:44).

  
• 02.15.2016

  Featuring Jillian Tamaki

  The curse of absolute freedom, Toronto vs. New York, and not relying on your parents for financial advice.

  
• 02.01.2016

  Featuring Kyrell Grant

  On thigh gaps, thirst, and Kanye’s masculinity.

  
• 01.18.2016

  Featuring Denise Balkissoon

  On sexist chefs and reporting on race in Toronto.

  
• 12.21.2015

  Featuring Carrie Brownstein

  On fandom, tweeting the pope, and the collective fatigue of the U.S. electoral process. Also turtles.

  
• 12.07.2015

  Featuring Tanya Tagaq

  On fear, the legacy of the residential school system, and pandering to the bottom feeders of the country.

  
• 11.23.2015

  Featuring Tavi Gevinson

  On being 15, growing up online, and writing with your mouth.

  
• 11.11.2015

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