It’s so much less disgusting than what you’re doing with your phone.
A bathroom book has one simple job: It must be briefly diverting. Sometimes the bathroom book diverts with facts, as in the Guinness Book. Sometimes it diverts with jokes, as inor collections of Onion headlines. The bathroom book is not meant to compel, to whisk you to another world, like a novel; after all, you have a job to do in there. It’s not meant to challenge you, as in the best narrative nonfiction; you get enough of that in all the other rooms of your house.
For a long time, readers had to find their own bathroom-oriented literature. The publishing industry ignored bathroom reading as a category. But that changed in the late 1980s, when brothers John and Gordon Javna created, the first purpose-built bathroom book. “At the time Reader’s Digest was the go-to,” John Javna told me when I Zoomed with the brothers recently. “We thought that was boring. You could do more interesting stuff.
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