VanderMeer's City of Saints / Story Suites

In a curious confluence of threads, I'd like to mention that in his review of this book (http://www.locusmag.com/2002/Reviews/Lalumiere03_VanderMeer.html)Claude Lalumiere posits the word "mosaic" to describe "books made up of previously published stories that form a whole more unified than the standard story collection," attempting to fill in the same perceived gap in the language that Le Guin coined "story suite" to fill. I'm not sure what it means that there have been two alternative suggestions posited within a month or two of each other, since this is not exactly a new type of book. -Jeff Prucher