Bech (Bech: A Book  and Bech Is Back) the moderately well-known Jewish American writer has become older but scarcely wiser.  He is still at bay, pursued by the hounds of desire and anxiety, of unbridled criticism and publicity in a literary world ever more cheerfully crass. It’s not easy being Henry Bech in the post-Gutenbergian world – but someone’s got to do it!  By the author of The Witches of Eastwick.