Goodreads asked M.T. Bass:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

M.T. Bass Catch-22 is my favorite book and I really wanted to kind of pay my respects by attempting to write a big sprawling, character strewn mess of black humor. But the problem was, about what? Everybody has crazy "war stories" about work and as I collected my own share of scars and tall tales to go with them, business seemed a good place to start and, then, what better setting than the Sixties with all its epic zaniness. Of course, if you're going to do a story set against the back drop of the Generation Gap, then you need generations to gap, hence the Father/Son dynamic. However it measures up, In the Black was a lot of fun to write.

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