Jonathan Lethem

fix-up n.	1997 J. Lethem in Locus Oct. 72/2 Just after that, I learned to write short stories proper, but those first four or so eventually became parts of Amnesia Moon, which is a book that is a fix-up, though no one knows it. It’s a fix-up of unpublished short stories.
grok v.	2003 J. Lethem Fortress of Solitude i. xviii. 277 Disgusting to realize he was flirting with Arthur’s mom, to realize, not that he grokked girls, he’d always been flirting with Arthur’s mom.