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 ...

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 aren’t too many of us now who need to sharpen a pencil in the first place, much less do it in a poetically inefficient manner. But that shouldn’t stop you from appreciating this ...