David Rees, or Artisanal Pencil Sharpening in Beacon, New York, will send you a brand new, hand-sharpened pencil for $12. Inside the box you'll also find the shavings, bagged and tagged for posterity, ...

In the barroom outside the shotgun performance hall at Pete's Candy Store, a woman's singing threatened to drown out a free lecture on artisanal pencil sharpening. "They're making an acetate record ...

For years, the knife was the most commonly used tool to sharpen the wooden writing instrument known as a pencil (which historians believe was invented in the 15th or 16th century). But whittling the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. David Rees, the man behind the popular political comic Get Your War On, ...

“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 ...

The eyes and the "Kys" have it! Kylie Cosmetics is dropping two new Kyliner Kits on Friday, Sept. 23 at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. ET in the form of Chameleon and Bronze. Technically, it is two brand new shades ...

The pencil's journey into your hand has been a 500-year process of discovery and invention. It began in the countryside of northern England, but a one-eyed balloonist from Napoleon Bonaparte's army, ...

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 ...

Gone are the days when kids had to raise their hands, rise from their desks and walk to sharpen their pencils in the corner of the classroom. Granted, personal sharpeners definitely aren’t a fresh ...

Life, especially these days, turns on the ability to appreciate small pleasures. But might there be pleasures too small to appreciate? And even if not, then too small to waste listeners’ time by ...