The Occult Gatsby
The Great Gatsby Annotated for Esoteric Content: The Fourth Way, Alchemy, Tarot, and Kabbalah
Copyright © 2025 Jon Woodson
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Oragean Modernism: a lost literary movement, 1924-1953. 2013.
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The Emblematic Novel: Esoteric Realism in the Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation. 2023
As well as several books of poetry and four novels with a fifth on the way: Endowed (2012), Summer Games (2016), Gon' Knock John Booker to the Low Ground (2021), and The Staircase Shuffle (2024).
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