The WB's Gilmore Girls is the most bookish show on television.
Norman Mailer's guest appearance on tonight's episode of Gilmore Girls will be the first cameo by a real-live author on the WB's quirky mother-daughter drama, now in its fifth season. But literature has played a supporting role on the show since its inception. With its rapid-fire, hyper-caffeinated dialogue and who's-got-a-crush-on-whom plotlines, Gilmore Girls could easily pass as another wholesome WB teen show à la Dawson's Creek. But beneath its giggly female energy and family-friendly values lurks the most bookish series on network television.
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