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 ...

David Rees, best known for his comic strip Get Your War On, is all over town this week promoting his new book, How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of ...

“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 ...

Pencil-sharpening maven David Rees turned the non-fiction writing series at the Mid-Manhattan Library upside-down Tuesday night with his edgy pencil-sharpening workshop — based on his instructional ...

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 often do you consider the pencil? Barely registers on your scale of mildly interesting objects, you say? For shame! You and I know that without the pencil, it would be difficult to come to the ...

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 ...

(CBS News) It's 30 days to Christmas, and over the coming weeks we'll be looking at intriguing holiday offerings, large and small. Even in our electronic age, the humble pencil is still very, very big ...

Britain has more than its fair share of off-the-wall literary prizes. There’s the much-feared Bad Sex in Fiction Award for the “most embarrassing passages of sexual description in a literary novel.” ...

The fabled performance artist declaims poetry commemorating our age of Zoom funerals and Zoom weddings and Zoom memorials and compulsive handwashing.