Bathroom reading their phones while on the toilet. The term "bathroom reading" refers to any literary material deemed suitable for casual or light reading. In 2011, the Canadian author Margaret Atwood wrote: Pulp magazines were associated with bathroom reading, which the film "Pulp Fiction" references in repeated scenes of John Travolta's character Vincent Vega reading the pulpy spy novel "Modesty Blaise" while sat on a toilet. Bathroom reading also refers to a genre of books containing humor and trivia, such as the "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader" series. In James Joyce's novel "Ulysses", the protagonist Leopold Bloom reads a magazine on the toilet
Hyperion (Longfellow novel) was a likely model for the book. The book's descriptions of Germany would later inspire its use as a companion travel guide for American tourists in that country. Hyperion (Longfellow novel) Hyperion: A Romance is one of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's earliest works, published in 1839. It is a prose romance which was published alongside his first volume of poems, "Voices of the Night". "Hyperion" follows a young American protagonist named Paul Flemming as he travels through Germany. The character's wandering is partially inspired by the death of a friend. The author had also recently lost someone close to him. Longfellow's