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Rita Bullwinkel is a novelist, the editor of ‘McSweeney’s Quarterly,’ and an avowed fan of full-fat dairy. ‘I would honestly drink coffee with whipping cream,’ she says in her Grub Street Diet. ‘Whole milk tastes like water to me.’

The figure of the container, a symbol of global capitalism’s flows, violence, and erasures, looms large in Post Atlantic, a show of eleven paintings and five collages by Bay Area artist and septuagenarian Dewey Crumpler.