Glasgow, Scotland: The Kerouac Connection, 1992. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Despite the fact that Jack Kerouac formulated the ‘Essentials for Spontaneous Prose’ in 1953, the doctrine itself unfortunately did not appear in print until The Black Mountain Review first published it in Autumn 1957, shortly following the September release of On the Road. By that time, Kerouac had already lived thirty-five of his forty-seven years. In addition to this time-lag..... More