Columbia resident Jessie Newburn has published a book, Uber Chronicles: Field Notes from the Front Seat. The book chronicles her trips, adventures and even some rather ho-hum times driving for Uber in the Baltimore-Washington area. She shares a story about each and every passenger she has picked up: the exchange and the conversation. There is also a “key experience” gleaned from each of the 56 rides she describes.
Says Gabe Karpati, one of her pre-release readers, “There is a relaxing magical quality to the way she writes these stories. A sweet quiet zen silence that is shining through every line. Jessie presents these encounters like a meditation, where the seer observes but doesn’t get entangled.”
“Driving for Uber has been an unexpected gift,” Newburn says. “I’ve been taken by the intimacy of shared space and time with my passengers. I think in some ways passengers are willing to reveal more information about their lives with me and other Uber drivers when they know that our time together is defined and (mostly) short. And sometimes they want a quiet ride with no conversation. The book covers each and every passenger.”
The book, currently on Kindle, is available at Amazon.com, http://bit.ly/uber-chronicles
A Facebook page for fans of the book can be found at facebook.com/uberchronicles.
About the author
Jessie Newburn lives in Columbia, Maryland., between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. She has been driving for Uber (and occasionally Lyft) since early 2016. As many passengers ask, “do you have another job?” she does. She is the #BizDev Manager at Atigro Digital Marketing. Jessie is also the founder of HoCoBlogs, a community of several hundred local bloggers, and of TotallyHoCo, a locally focused calendar site.