Giada Biaggi is a screenwriter and stand-up comedian from Milan. Her first novel, Il bikini di Sylvia Plath, has been published by Nottetempo in September 2022.
RSS: Age, profession, superpower.
GB: 31 years old, writer, don’t make it to the second date.
RSS: Favourite word.
GB: Zeitgeist.
RSS: Things you don’t share with your protagonist.
GB: Toxic addiction and… that’s it.
RSS: Things you don’t share with blondes.
GB: Being unable to talk about philosophy.
RSS: A person who should never read your book.
GB: The ghost of Giulio Andreotti.
RSS: Why doesn’t Eva wear fur?
GB: Because according to Agamben, the one who wrote this quote, Eva is a bitch.
RSS: Alter Ego of Club 27.
GB: Amy Winehouse when she wore the blonde wig.
RSS: Your book according to a “that girl” vs a “this girl”.
GB: According to a “that girl” it’s a book against mindfulness, according to a “this girl” it’s a book describing a complex female character.
RSS: Characteristics of a complex female character.
GB: She wears the same outfit throughout the whole film and has a dysfunctional relationship with a musician and/or a writer and/or an art director and/or a photographer, which ends badly, destroying her self-esteem.
RSS: Is it all Amelie’s fault?
GB: Yes, because Amelie didn’t fuck much, so she ruined us all.
RSS: How to recognise a Ludovico?
GB: Fluorescent socks, an anglicism every two words and Jil Sander jackets.
RSS: Material and immaterial things that are better than love.
GB: Prada bags and the dog’s celebrations when you return home.
RSS: A Vanessa Beecroft performance re-imagined by you.
GB: I’d redo the one the book opens with, at the Neue Nationalgalerie, with nude tights but I’d pick all menstruating performers.
RSS: Patriarchy denialist: a supporter and an opponent.
GB: A supporter: Massimo Gramellini, and an opponent… Craxi
RSS: To love or to be loved?
GB: To be loved. There’s Freud who said this thing that in women the desire to be loved is stronger than the desire to love and I think it’s true.
RSS: Favourite verb tenses.
GB: Gerund, very Battiato.
RSS: What would Sylvia Plath think?
GB: Why didn’t I choose a one-piece swimming suit?
RSS: What about your dog?
GB: I’m a dog, I can’t read.