Required Reading: 10 Books That Changed 'Fruit Fly' Author Josh Silver’s Life

Required Reading: 10 Books That Changed 'Fruit Fly' Author Josh Silver’s Life

'Fruit Fly' is out Tuesday, August 25 from Simon & Schuster.

Fruit Fly author Josh Silver doesn’t care if you find his characters 'awful'

Despite the long-storied tradition of the special relationship between gay men and straight women, few books have plumbed the intricacies of this type of dyad like Fruit Fly. Though there are plenty of laughs to be had, this is no Will & Grace. Instead, Josh Silver’s darkly comic debut adult novel follows Mallory Maddox, an author and therapist floundering with writer’s block, who becomes obsessed with a young gay addict named Leo. She takes his…