Marissa Paternoster: Emergence.

Unflinching Examinations, Ferociously Personal and Shockingly Frank.

I sat down with the artist and musician Marissa Paternoster at a table outside Tom’s Restaurant, the iconic diner of Seinfeld fame. “It’s different on the inside, you know,” she told me. “They didn’t shoot the show inside, it’s just the sign.” I never made it into Tom’s interior to see for myself — with pandemic restrictions, we sat outdoors — but it wa…