“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, ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. April 5, 2017 Add as a ...

Yes, "The Campaign for the Accurate Measurement of Creativity" is a Kickstarter for a pencil sharpener attached to a mason jar. And yes, this is pretty silly. It's also, however, a worthwhile ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...