{
 "declared_absence": "Jack Kerouac — a declared absence: Belief & Technique for Modern Prose and Essentials of Spontaneous Prose, with the novels and Mexico City Blues",
 "kind": "copyright",
 "rights": "The Estate of Jack Kerouac; the first publishers named.",
 "works": [
  {
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "title": "The Town and the City",
   "first_publisher": "Harcourt, Brace",
   "first_published": 1950,
   "opens": "2046-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked)"
  },
  {
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "title": "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose, in Black Mountain Review 7",
   "first_publisher": "Black Mountain College",
   "first_published": 1957,
   "opens": "2053-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked)"
  },
  {
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "title": "On the Road",
   "first_publisher": "Viking Press",
   "first_published": 1957,
   "opens": "2053-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked)"
  },
  {
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "title": "The Subterraneans",
   "first_publisher": "Grove Press",
   "first_published": 1958,
   "opens": "2054-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked)"
  },
  {
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "title": "The Dharma Bums",
   "first_publisher": "Viking Press",
   "first_published": 1958,
   "opens": "2054-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked)"
  },
  {
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "title": "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose, in Evergreen Review 2.5",
   "first_publisher": "Grove Press",
   "first_published": 1958,
   "opens": "2054-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked)"
  },
  {
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "title": "Belief & Technique for Modern Prose: List of Essentials, in Evergreen Review 2.8",
   "first_publisher": "Grove Press",
   "first_published": 1959,
   "opens": "2055-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked)"
  },
  {
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "title": "Doctor Sax",
   "first_publisher": "Grove Press",
   "first_published": 1959,
   "opens": "2055-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked)"
  },
  {
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "title": "Mexico City Blues",
   "first_publisher": "Grove Press",
   "first_published": 1959,
   "opens": "2055-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked)"
  },
  {
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "title": "Book of Dreams",
   "first_publisher": "City Lights",
   "first_published": 1961,
   "opens": "2057-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked)"
  },
  {
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "title": "Big Sur",
   "first_publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Cudahy",
   "first_published": 1962,
   "opens": "2058-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked)"
  },
  {
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "title": "Visions of Cody",
   "first_publisher": "McGraw-Hill",
   "first_published": 1972,
   "opens": "2068-01-01"
  },
  {
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "title": "Selected Letters, 1957–1969, ed. Ann Charters (the letter of 1958 to Donald Allen)",
   "first_publisher": "Viking",
   "first_published": 1999,
   "opens": "2040-01-01, seventy years after the author's death, for matter first published after 1977; the editor's apparatus under its own terms"
  },
  {
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "title": "On the Road: The Original Scroll, ed. Howard Cunnell",
   "first_publisher": "Viking",
   "first_published": 2007,
   "opens": "2040-01-01, seventy years after the author's death; the editors' apparatus under its own terms"
  }
 ],
 "wanted": "Wanted: the two statements of method first, in their first printings (Black Mountain Review 7, 1957; Evergreen Review 2.5, 1958, and 2.8, 1959), and the 1958 letter to Donald Allen in which the list was written; the renewal record of each work published before 1964, which decides when it opens. Until then the shelf describes the list and cites it by item number (Belief & Technique for Telepathic Prose: A Critical Edition, §7).",
 "on_the_shelf": "Beside Allen Ginsberg's declared absence (28/03), whose Howl and Other Poems is dedicated to him; Whitman (03/01); and Pearl and Other Poems (03/02), whose Footnote takes his title and whose Jack Feist stands in his place.",
 "note": "This seat holds no text of the works it names. The dates follow the terms stated; they are not legal advice."
}