Every Friday, Swimming in the Nile will bring you five links which will serve to titillate, educate or inspire.  A bit like Capt. Sullenberger, you know.  Hopefully these links will also be talking points, of which you and your friends, online and offline, can discuss.  So, without further ado, I bring you the latest Friday Link Roundup!

•    Al Kennedy on why it’s impossible to convince a writer not to become a writer ‘without also killing them to some significant degree.’

•    Books – the silent killer. I hate to say it, but I warned you.

•    Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger, pilot of the airliner that took a dip in the Hudson, performs another heroic and heartwarming gesture.

•    A fascinating SMH article on the difference between flexibility and elasticity.  Seriously.

•    Chitra Divakaruni gets to the bottom of the Great Slumdog Debate.

Well, that’s all for this week.  Have a good one!

- Jordan