Podcast Extra on traumatic reading, Chris Womersley's bookshelf and Julianne Schultz's digital futures

What does it mean if reading becomes an endurance test in the face of trauma? Critic Beejay Silcox asks what it means to read books that are pointlessly distressing. Also, gothic Australian writer Chris Womersley on the bookshelf that made him, an extended interview with Julianne Schultz and reading recommendations from Sarah Kanowski, Justine Hyde and Catherine Keenan