The following interview is an edited and condensed version of the conversation.

There’s an anecdote midway through your book where Cortney Tunis, the executive director of Pantsuit Nation, has a moment that many women in the city will understand.

About getting angry at the men in suits in New York after the 2016 election?

Exactly. When I first moved here, I had daily rage at the same scene: the barrage of white men in suits coming at me.

The thing about the guys just charging through, taking up space and not caring if they push you out of the way — that works metaphorically with so much of the rage when we’re talking about Donald Trump or Brett Kavanaugh.

When you moved to New York, did you know what you wanted to pursue?

I didn’t know. I had an internship. I worked at Bath & Body Works. After I’d been here for about six months, I got a job working as an assistant to an actor, Harvey Keitel.

O.K., I have so many questions.

It’s like one of these weird details of my life.

I remember hearing stories about Harvey Keitel in the ’90s. This is when you were working for him?