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Love of Pencils, Freely Expressed (New Yorker)
I got a peek inside David Rees's pencil-sharpening kit last week at his appearance in Williamsburg, sponsored by the bookstore Word, at Public Assembly. It was the last stop on his book tour ("How to Sharpen Pencils" was reviewed on Page-Turner recently by Mark O'Connell), and for the occasion he was joined onstage by John Hodgman, who wrote the foreword for Rees's book, and who read a hilarious piece about wine from his new collection, "That Is All" ("One kind of wine is … RED WINE"), and by Jonathan Coulton, who, at Rees's request, sang melancholy songs from his new album, "Artificial Heart." One of the things Rees keeps in his kit, besides his sharpeners, rags, sandpaper, vinyl tubing, and replacement blades, is plastic bags, for collecting pencil shavings. It was this insight, Rees explained--that the shavings belong to the client and should be returned to the client along with the hand-sharpened pencil--that made him realize that he could make a go of it as an artisanal pencil sharpener. To illustrate, he said that he had been so excited about that night's show that he'd gotten a haircut, and when the barber began to sweep ...
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