# Stake It or Leave It: Speculative Fiction with Nnedi Okorafor and V.E. Schwab

When the world has no place for you, what do you do? Fight, surrender or begin anew? Nnedi Okorafor’s experimental book-within-a-book, “Death of the Author,” creates a new reality for Zelu, a disabled Nigerian woman, to become her truest self. V.E. Schwab’s “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil” interweaves the stories of women throughout time, with a vampiric twist.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2025
- Runtime: 58 min
- By: Labrise, Megan
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-11042/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/video-11042?play=1)