Bram's

Bram's taste isn't for the obvious, and the images he's curated rarely display traditionally seductive or eye-catching gimmickry; landscapes are drably colored, ordinary people are shown in unembellished states of ordinariness.

Larissa Archer: No Gimmicks at Fraction Magazine Group Show Larissa Archer 2011

But Fortune's god is quite different from Bram's: “He did not know much concerning Uri's God, but he believed in Chance.”

“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010

Bram's taste isn't for the obvious, and the images he's curated rarely display traditionally seductive or eye-catching gimmickry; landscapes are drably colored, ordinary people are shown in unembellished states of ordinariness.

Larissa Archer: No Gimmicks at Fraction Magazine Group Show Larissa Archer 2011

Bram's taste isn't for the obvious, and the images he's curated rarely display traditionally seductive or eye-catching gimmickry; landscapes are drably colored, ordinary people are shown in unembellished states of ordinariness.

Larissa Archer: No Gimmicks at Fraction Magazine Group Show Larissa Archer 2011

In fact, little attention was given to Uri Bram's cabin; for it was the last place under the sun to expect to find the murderer of John Randolph.

WHICH MAKE MEN REMEMBER 2010

Another tale set in Nome as well as in the Y.T. is "Which Make Men Remember" (as "Uri Bram's God," San Francisco Examiner, June 24, 1900).

“Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.” 2008

Now La Perle faces the pistol, certain that "Chance would not desert him now," but Uri Bram's shot is true: "Fortune did not whirl, but gay San Francisco dimmed and faded, and as the sun-bright snow turned black and blacker, he breathed his last malediction on the chance he had misplayed."

“Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.” 2008

And after a devastating attack, apparently executed by a young Jew who has disappeared in the same period as Bram's child, Bram starts to hope again, starts to think that, maybe, his son is still alive, just like these other Jewish boys, a group that seems to have been kidnapped and trained to become Muslim suicide killers, Jewish kids who will come back to Israel to kill their parents.

Nathan Gardels: Imagining Israel in 2024: Only Tel Aviv Remains 2009

Anyone else think Bram's metal box holds something MAGICAL inside?

LOSTCasts 77: Theory Cast 2009

Stoker and Holt claim that "it was our most important goal with this sequel to right the wrongs to Bram's original classic" (413), and yet the only really innovative thing in the book (Jack the Ripper as a woman) has nothing to do with the Count.

The Little Professor 2009