About

The Lorax Correspondent is an online magazine devoted to publishing stories of the highest quality. Themes to be included will be family, spirituality, work, literature, music, visual art, and others. Our goal is to promote and propagate commonly held, foundational, and wholesome belief systems. In short: this will be a forum and a safe harbor for those who wish to restore the dignity, integrity, and general goodness of being human.

The editor of the Lorax Correspondent is Philip Scott Wikel, the 5 Star author of Ticket to Ride (Midwest Book Review, Oct. 2010). Philip has been writing most of his life, has published two print magazines and studied Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at UC-Santa Cruz. His many articles include “Green Surfing, the Shock of the New” (Surfer’s Path, UK), and an interview with Jack Johnson (Blue Edge, Santa Barbara, CA). He is currently working on the sequel to Ticket to Ride, entitled Here We Are Now (available free on his blog at: http://philipscottwikel.wordpress.com).

For more information, contact us at lord.greystoke77@gmail.com with your questions and/or comments. Thanks for stopping by.

The Lorax (from Wikipedia)

The Lorax is a children’s book, written by Dr. Seuss and first published in 1971. It chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax, who speaks for the trees against the greedy Once-ler. As in most of Dr. Seuss works, most of the creatures mentioned are original to the book.

The book is commonly recognized as a fable concerning industrialized society, using the literary element of personification to give life to industry as the Once-ler (whose face is never shown in any of the story’s illustrations or in the television special) and to the environment as the Lorax. It has become a popular metaphor for those concerned about the environment.

At the Lorax Correspondent we’ve decided to expand the metaphor of the Lorax to include anything that is threatened with extinction by the proliferation of lowbrow popular culture.