This month, Court Street bookstore BookCourt will publish issue #1 of Cousin Corinne’s Reminder, a literary magazine with a distinct Brooklyn bent. Headliners are Jonathan Lethem, Dean Haspiel, and Oprah foe James Frey, but the rest of the lineup is strong, to say the least:

–Charles Bock, whose debut novel Beautiful Children won the 2009 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction.
–Shira Nayman, who has published a collection of stories, Awake in the Dark, and a novel, The Listener, through Simon and Schuster.
–Alice Notley, a poet with a list of accolades as long as your arm; in 1998 she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
–John Burnham Schwartz, whose novel Reservation Road was made into a film starring Joaquin Phoenix and Jennifer Connelly.
–Beat poet Anne Waldman.
–John Wray, author of three novels, The Right Hand of Sleep, Canaan’s Tongue, and Lowboy.
–numerous Brooklyn comix creators, including Mike Cavallaro, Jen Ferguson, Jennifer Hayden, Michel Fiffe, and Kat Roberts.

Cousin Corinne is running a bit late — she didn’t quite make her advertised March 1 pub date. The crew manning the store at BookCourt today confessed they didn’t know exactly when she would be arriving (manager/editor Zach Zook wasn’t present), but assured us that there will be no escaping her once she’s in store. Check for updates at cousincorinne.com/issue-one.html.