Just after probable presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, accompanied by her husband, Bill Clinton, appeared together in Iowa, I talked with Gail Sheehy, whose new memoir is Daring: Sheehy has earned a reputation as a world-famous journalist and writer of best-selling books, including “Passages.” A day or so after the Clinton trip to Iowa, Sheehy — who lived here with Felker when he founded the Felker Magazine Course at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism — talked about Hillary and Bill and Gail and Clay. Eventually, said Sheehy, “there was a role reversal, a partial role reversal, I should say, as Clinton retired from the presidency, and, to be sure, started an incredibly vital and global new career.” When that newspaper folded, he founded New York magazine, where she was one of the few women writers who started there. Sheehy recalls, “We had first a creative intimacy for, I don’t know, I suppose four or five years before we lived together, and there was always ...