David Rees thinks he knows how to sharpen pencils. He says people have entrusted 1,500 pencil points to his sharpening business. I know a little something about working with sharp pencils, and let me ...

“How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening” (Melville House, $19.95), by David Rees, is not your average book about pencil sharpening. In ...

So when we heard that political cartoonist David Rees would be at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn on February 13th offering tutorials on “artisanal pencil sharpening,” we thought it was a brilliant ...

There is a crisis on campus. No one's life is at stake, but a lot of people's homework is. I refer to the lack of decent pencil sharpeners on campus. The only place I have been able to find decent, ...

Although it’s not very glamorous, everyone needs a reliable pencil sharpener in their home. Whether your kids write with pencils every day or you turn to your colored pencils and your calming coloring ...