Sharpened Long
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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