“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 ...

When's the last time you sat down and wrote something with a nice, sharp pencil? You'll be happy to know that it still feels, sounds, and smells great. But a sharp pencil requires a pencil sharpener, ...

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Would you pay twelve dollars to get your pencil sharpened? Hand-sharpened, admittedly; lovingly so, and it comes posted back (including overseas) with a certificate ...

(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 ...

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

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 ...

Sticking a pencil into the top lens of this tiny TLR camera feels like you're sticking a pointy stick in somebody's eye, but that's ok, as that's not really a lens. In fact, this isn't really a camera ...

ANDOVER, Minn. — In the digital age, bright yellow paint can seem like the only thing keeping pencils from feeling a little dull. But in a split-level house in Andover, pencils never stop feeling ...

Someone just paid David Rees, of Beacon, N.Y., $35 to sharpen a pencil. "I think people think: 'Wow, I can't believe he actually did it,'" Rees said. "I wasn't sure what would happen when I sent this ...