Bech At Bay: John UpdikeBech (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.