Doerr's strong collection of Best American Short Stories 2019, and the sense of an ending

Anthony Doerr has put together a particularly strong collection in his The Best Ameican Short Stores - 2019. He selected a wide variety of stories, a good mix of the well known and the unknown, a range of settings and genres (even including some scifi and some historical fiction), stories that well reflect the increasingly diverse group of excellent writers in the American vein. i would say that Doerr's taste veers toward the traditional (as does mine) - though more of that in a second - and definitely he prefers longer and more developed stories than we would typically find in most current publications (he's a novelist, after all). He amusingly sets up a straw man - Rust Hills, former fiction ed at Esquire - who wrote a how-to book with a # of dicta for would-be writers of short fiction; Doerr shows how each of the stories he's selected violates one or more of these dicta - but after all, Hills's prescriptions are really out of date, and Doerr's selections are really not so ground-breaking as he'd like us to think. One aspect of the short story that Doerr does not mention is the creation of an ending; more stories fail on that score, I think, than on any other - either just screeching to a stop or ending with too much ambiguity or on some hollow attempt a Joycean epiphany. Several of the stories in this collection, however, have beautiful endings, and I think these are the best of the group (with the addition Deborah Eisenberg's creepy and imaginative dystopian story The Third Tower, about a woman how has to be "reprogrammed" because she thinks for herself). The story that stays w/ me the most, largely because of its ending that breaks away entirely from the preceding narrative is Alexis Shaitkin's  Natural Disasters. Jenn Ahern Trahan's They Told Us Not to Say This has a gut-punch ending as well, and then there's Wendell Berry's The Great Interruption, which, as Doerr notes, introduces its first-person narrator only in the final few paragraphs - which put the story into a new light and which elucidate the essential life philosophy that has guided Berry (I've just read a review of some of his recent works) across his long writing career.