A Tear Shed into a Cup of Sorrows

Authors

  • Stephen Borkowski Author

Keywords:

Norris Church Mailer, memoir and personal reflection, Provincetown literary community, friendship and remembrance, grief and loss, historical memory and artifacts, literary legacy

Abstract

An analysis of a Russian Khodinka Cup, or Cup of Sorrows, and how it relates to Mailer.

Author Biography

  • Stephen Borkowski

    Stephen Borkowski has a long history in administration of non-profit institutions. A graduate of the Paier School of Art in Hamden, CT. He is active in many civic functions in Provincetown where he serves currently as Chair of the Provincetown Art Commission. He has been recognized for his research on early modernists in Provincetown, Edna Boies Hopkins, Blanche Lazzell, and E. Ambrose Webster among them.

Published

2026-06-16

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