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The hardest part of this challenge is finding the reading material, preferably in an online format. Any help tracking down stories, poems, and essays (and attribution / links) would be greatly appreciated. To contribute:

1. Check the list of resources to see if your suggestion is already on there.
2. Please submit your items as new issues — I'll then go through and add them to the resources list and find a place for them on the schedule.
3. Get reading!

In 2001, Ray Bradbury gave a speech at (video starts around 11:00) the University of California where he encouraged young writers to read three things every night:

1. One short story (Dahl, Hemingway, Matheson, Cheever, Kneale, Collier, Warton, Irving)
2. One poem (Shakespeare, Frost, Pope)
3. One essay (Huxley, Eiseley)

His goal is to make you into a collector of the metaphor -- filling your head with thoughts, theories, and ideas before bed, rather than completing another level in Angry Birds.

This repository is to help me 1.) follow Bradbury's advice and 2.) create a list of reading material to fill 1,000 nights.

Hat tip to Rands in Repose for originally alerting me to the video.