The Massage of Erasure by Shmuel Barber
Pynewood Press is proud to present The Massage of Erasure by Shmuel Barber.
Fans of Ballard and Bulgakov, you’re in luck. You’ve stumbled upon your next best read.
Released on 5th December 2025, The Massage of Erasure also shares its birthday with some notable figures from history.
These include American animator and producer, Walt Disney (1901); Fritz Lang (1890; Metropolis), Austrian-German-American filmmaker and screenwriter; and German physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Werner Heisenberg (1901).
One name that won’t be scrubbed from history any time soon is Josef Stalin, former Prime Minister of the Soviet Union.
He died on 5th December 1953. A bellowing erasure.
The Massage of Erasure beckons readers to experience the tattered and tissue-like remnants of existence once its been torn into fragmentary parts, dissolved by the acid of self, and then snagged from nothingness and wound up into a tight ball of yarn. Intrigued? Read more here.
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Shmuel released his debut collection back in September 2024 entitled Thus Spoke Alpha & Omega: And Other Stories from a Charismatic Studio.
Front cover for The Massage of Erasure - illustration by Gilles Fidel.
